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The present study was undertaken to determine whether or not tissue glycogen depletion prior to ischemia, and subsequent attenuation of tissue lactate accumulation during ischemia, correlates with postischemic functional recovery of the preconditioned heart. Isolated rat hearts were subjected to 40-min ischemia and 30-min reperfusion. Preconditioning with 5-min ischemia and 5-min reperfusion reduced the preischemic glycogen and postischemic lactate levels of the heart to 60.5±5.6% and 66.9±7.7% respectively, of values in non-preconditioned hearts (n=6), and improved the recovery of the rate-pressure product (RPP) of the ischemic/reperfused heart (87.0±5.8% versus 25.2±4.5% of the initial value for the non-preconditioned group,n=8). Treatment with polymyxin B (50µM) abolished the preconditioning-induced postischemic recovery of the RPP. Treatment of the non-preconditioned heart with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (15 pmol/5min) resulted in an improvement in the postischemic recovery of RPP. Neither of these treatments affected the preischemic glycogen and postischemic lactate levels. The results suggest that preischemic glycogen depletion and subsequent attenuation of ischemic lactate accumulation do not play a major role in the preconditioning-induced protection against postischemic contractile dysfunction in perfused rat hearts.
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Yabe, Ki., Takeo, S. Does glycogen depletion play an important role in ischemic preconditioning?. Heart Vessels 12, 136–142 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02767131
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