The effect of treatment with coenzyme Q10 on the mitochondrial function and superoxide radical formation in cardiac muscle hypertrophied by mild aortic stenosis
Autor: | E. Pretolani, Claudio Muscari, Carlo Guarnieri, I. Caldarera, Manfroni S, Claudio Stefanelli |
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Rok vydání: | 1987 |
Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Ubiquinone Thiobarbituric acid Respiratory chain Cardiomegaly Mitochondria Heart Lipofuscin Superoxide dismutase chemistry.chemical_compound Oxygen Consumption Superoxides Malondialdehyde medicine.artery Internal medicine medicine Animals Molecular Biology Heart metabolism Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase Coenzyme Q10 chemistry.chemical_classification Glutathione Peroxidase Aorta biology Superoxide Dismutase Myocardium Glutathione peroxidase Body Weight Cardiac muscle Aortic Valve Stenosis Organ Size medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology chemistry cardiovascular system biology.protein Rabbits Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine |
Zdroj: | Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 19:63-71 |
ISSN: | 0022-2828 |
DOI: | 10.1016/s0022-2828(87)80545-x |
Popis: | A 40% reduction of the diameter of the ascending aorta maintained for 60 days induced the formation of a compensate cardiac hypertrophy in rabbits without changing the value of the azide insensitive Ca2+-ATPase activity in comparison to control hearts. The cardiac mitochondria isolated from constricted animals assayed in presence of glutamate and succinate did not show a change in the R.C.I. and ADP/O values in comparison to the controls, whilst the QO2 value enhanced or decreased respectively when determined with glutamate or succinate. The intramuscular injections of CoQ10 (12 mg/kg body weight/48 h) enhanced the mitochondrial CoQ10 concentrations both in the control and in the constricted animals and further increased the QO2 value determined in both groups of animals when glutamate was used as the substrate. The production of O2.- radicals by the level of the complexes I and III of the respiratory chain, did not change in the constricted animals, nor in the animals administered with CoQ10 in comparison to the control. CoQ10 augmented the rate of oxygen consumption by the submitochondrial particles only in the constricted animals. Moreover, the treatment with the coenzyme or the constriction of the aorta, did not modify the cardiac superoxide dismutase activity, but increased the glutathione peroxidase activity only in the banded animals. In addition, in the CoQ10 treated animals there was a reduction of NADH-diaphorase activity both in the control and constricted animals, while the malondialdehyde, generated during the thiobarbituric acid test, and the cardiac content of lipofuscin were decreased. |
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