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The effect of hypoxia and post-hypoxic recovery were studied in gastrocnemius muscle of young-adult and mature beagle dogs. Furthermore, the possible interference of pharmacological treatment with nicergoline was evaluated in these conditions. Muscular glycolytic fuels, intermediates and end-products (glycogen, glucose, glucose 6-phosphate, pyruvate, lactate), Kreb's cycle intermediates (citrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, succinate, malate) and related free amino acids (glutamate, alanine), ammonium ion, energy store and mediators (ATP, ADP, AMP and creatine phosphate), and the energy charge potential were evaluated. Furthermore, in the crude extract and/or mitochondrial fraction of another portion of the same gastrocnemius muscle the maximum rate (Vmax) of some muscular enzymes related to the anaerobic glycolytic pathway (hexokinase, lactate dehydrogenase), the Kreb's cycle (citrate synthase, malate dehydrogenase), the aminoacid pool related to the Krebs' cycle (glutamate dehydrogenase and aspartate aminotransferase), the electron transfer chain (cytochrome oxidase) and NAD+/NADH exchanges (total NADH cytochrome c reductase) was evaluated. Some glycolytic metabolites and Krebs' cycle intermediates were modified by acute hypoxia, while free amino acids and energy mediators remained practically unchanged. The pharmacological treatment maintained the glucose and succinate muscular concentrations within the normal range, during hypoxia. The behaviour of muscular metabolites during hypoxia and/or post-hypoxic recovery is an age-related event. In fact, only in young-adult animals did the altered values return to normal in post-hypoxic recovery. In the present experimental conditions, only minor changes were observed as far as muscular enzyme activities are concerned. In any case, some enzyme activities tested showed different Vmax in young-adult dogs in comparison with mature ones.
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PMID:Effect of hypoxia, aging and pharmacological treatment on muscular metabolites and enzyme activities. 322 9

Axenic culture amastigote-like forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, grown at 28 degrees C, reach a stationary phase after two generations, and differentiate to epimastigotes, which then resume growth. Axenic culture amastigotes readily ferment glucose to succinate and acetate, and do not excrete NH3; they have high activities of hexokinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, and very low citrate synthase activity; cytochrome o is absent, and cytochrome b-like is present at a very low level. Epimastigotes catabolize glucose and produce succinate and acetate at a considerably lower rate; they exhibit lower levels of hexokinase and carboxykinase, and much higher levels of citrate synthase and cytochromes o and b-like. They catabolize amino acids, as shown by excretion of NH3 to the medium. The results suggest that axenic culture amastigotes have an essentially glycolytic metabolism, and they acquire the ability to oxidize substrates such as amino acids only after differentiation to epimastigotes.
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PMID:Aerobic glucose fermentation by Trypanosoma cruzi axenic culture amastigote-like forms during growth and differentiation to epimastigotes. 332 2

We studied energy metabolism after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats. Four different cerebral areas were tested: frontal cortex, occipital cortex, hippocampus, and brainstem. Vmax of the following enzymatic activities was evaluated: in the homogenate: hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, and lactate dehydrogenase for the glycolytic pathway, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase for the hexose monophosphate shunt; in the purified nonsynaptic mitochondria: NAD+-isocitrate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, and succinate dehydrogenase for the Krebs cycle, and cytochrome oxidase for the electron transfer chain. We also evaluated some parameters related to the respiration of nonsynaptic mitochondria (State 3, State 4, uncoupled state, respiratory control ratio, and ADP:O ratio). Subarachnoid hemorrhage did not significantly affect Vmax of the enzymatic activities related to anaerobic and aerobic metabolism; however, mitochondrial respiration was affected, particularly in the presence of NADH-producing substrates (glutamate + malate).
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PMID:Bioenergetics of different brain areas after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats. 335 25

To study the early effects of hypertension on the heart, we examined isolated hearts from rabbits with slowly developing hypertension of up to 64 weeks in duration after unilateral nephrectomy and renal artery stenosis. Normotensive animals kept under identical conditions served as controls. Mean arterial blood pressure rose from 83 to 155 mm Hg in the hypertensive group of longest duration, but the ratio of left ventricular weight to body weight was not different between the experimental and control groups. Although left ventricular hypertrophy was not present, left ventricular peak systolic pressure of perfused hearts was significantly higher in hypertensive than in normotensive hearts. Furthermore, while in hypertensive hearts the left ventricular end-diastolic volume was increased, the peak systolic pressure did not respond to an increase in left ventricular end-diastolic volume. Functional changes were accompanied by metabolic changes in the left ventricle. Rates of glucose utilization were increased and rates of ketone body utilization were decreased in hypertensive hearts. Activities of key enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism (phosphorylase, hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, and lactate dehydrogenase) were increased, while those of ketone body metabolism (3-oxoacid-CoA transferase, acetoacetyl-CoA synthase) were decreased and those of the citric acid cycle (citrate synthase, 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase) were not different between groups. In summary, moderate hypertension for a period of more than 1 year resulted in functional and metabolic changes of the left ventricle in hypertensive animals that were already manifest at 8 weeks of hypertension.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effects of moderate hypertension on cardiac function and metabolism in the rabbit. 336 75

To determine whether respiratory muscles undergo alterations in enzyme activities of energy metabolism as a result of increased mechanical activity, adult male Wistar rats were subjected to a prolonged endurance training program. Analysis off maximal enzyme activity patterns in the diaphragm following 15 weeks of extreme training (final running duration: 210 min per day, 27 m.min-1 at 15 degrees grade, indicated significant reductions in the marker enzymes of the citric acid cycle (citrate synthase), glycolysis (pyruvate kinase, PK; lactate dehydrogenase, LDH), ketone body utilization (3-keto acid: CoA transferase) and transamination (glutamate pyruvate transaminase, GPT). No changes were found for the enzymes of glycogenolysis (phosphorylase, PHOSPH), glycolysis (glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase, GAPDH), glucose phosphorylation (hexokinase, HK) and beta-oxidation (3-hydroxyacyl: CoA dehydrogenase, HAD) following training. In contrast, in the external intercostal muscle, increases in the range of 57-77% were noted for the enzymes CS and HAD, whereas in the internal intercostal muscles no training induced alteration was evident for these enzymes. For both the intercostal muscles, a consistent trend was noted towards a reduction in all of the glycolytic enzymes investigated, however, significantly lower values were recorded for only PK and LDH in the internal intercostals. GPT was increased in the internal intercostal muscles. These findings indicate that the response pattern observed in the enzyme activities studied following training are to some degree specific to the respiratory muscle investigated.
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PMID:Differential response of enzyme activities in rat diaphragm and intercostal muscles to exercise training. 337 43

The glycolytic and oxidative enzyme activities (lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), hexokinase (HK), citrate synthase (CS) and 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase (HAD] were measured in the fifth internal and external intercostal muscles, in the vertical and horizontal parts of the serratus, an accessory inspiratory muscle, and in a non-respiratory muscle, the latissimus dorsi (LD) of twenty middle-aged men: nine subjects with normal lung function and eleven patients with moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In the normal subjects the enzyme activities of the respiratory muscles were similar to those of the LD, and there were no differences between the internal and the external intercostal muscles. In the COPD patients the metabolic activities of HK, CS and HAD were higher in both intercostals than in LD. Furthermore, there was a significant increase in these enzymatic activities as compared to the intercostals of the normal subjects. These data support the hypothesis that the internal and external intercostal muscles play a more important role in COPD patients than in normal subjects. They are consistent with the hypothesis that COPD has an endurance training effect on both intercostal muscles which could compensate for diaphragmatic disuse.
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PMID:Metabolic enzymatic activities in the intercostal and serratus muscles and in the latissimus dorsi of middle-aged normal men and patients with moderate obstructive pulmonary disease. 339 77

1. The effect of dexamethasone (30 micrograms day-1 100 g-1 body wt.) on the metabolism of glucose and glutamine was studied in the small intestine of rats after 9 days of treatment. 2. Dexamethasone treatment resulted in negative nitrogen balance (P less than 0.001), and produced increases in the concentrations of plasma glucose (22%, P less than 0.05), alanine (32%, P less than 0.001) and insulin (127%, P less than 0.001), but a decrease in the plasma concentration of glutamine (20%, P less than 0.05). 3. Portal-drained visceral blood flow increased by approximately 22% (P less than 0.001) in dexamethasone-treated rats, and was accompanied by a decrease in the arterio-venous concentration difference of glucose (43%, P less than 0.001) and an increase in that of lactate (22%, P less than 0.05), glutamine (35%, P less than 0.01), glutamate (33%, P less than 0.01) and alanine (21%, P less than 0.05). 4. Enterocytes isolated from dexamethasone-treated rats showed decreased and increased rates of glucose and glutamine utilization, respectively. 5. The maximal activities of hexokinase, 6-phosphofructokinase, citrate synthase and oxoglutarate dehydrogenase were decreased (30-64%, P less than 0.001) in intestinal mucosal scrapings of dexamethasone-treated rats, whereas the activity of glutaminase was increased (35%, P less than 0.001). 6. It is concluded that glucocorticoid administration decreases the rate of glucose utilization but increases that of glutamine (both in vivo and in vitro) by the epithelial cells of the small intestine. This may be caused by changes in the maximal activities of key enzymes in the pathways of glucose and glutamine metabolism in these cells.
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PMID:Effect of glucocorticoid treatment on glucose and glutamine metabolism by the small intestine of the rat. 340 28

1. The effects of burn injury (33 per cent of body surface area) on the activities of key enzymes in the metabolism of glucose, glutamine and ketone bodies in the epithelial cells of the small intestine and the rates of utilization of glucose, glutamine and ketone bodies by isolated enterocytes have been investigated. 2. Burn injury decreased the maximal activities of hexokinase and 6-phosphofructokinase and increased those of glucose 6-phosphatase plus fructose bisphosphatase (in duodenum, jejunum and ileum) over the first 5 days post-injury. 3. After injury there are decreases in the rates of glucose utilization and lactate formation by incubated enterocytes. 4. The maximal activities of citrate synthase and oxoglutarate dehydrogenase were increased during the first 5 days post-injury, whereas the ketone-body-utilizing enzymes were unchanged. 5. An increase in the maximal activity of phosphate-dependent glutaminase was observed during the whole of the post-injury period studied (20 days). 6. After burn injury there is an increased rate of glutamine utilization and increased rates of formation of glutamate and alanine by incubated enterocytes.
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PMID:Maximal activities of glutaminase and some enzymes of glycolysis and ketone body utilization and rates of utilization of glutamine, glucose and ketone bodies by intestinal mucosa after burn injury. 344 21

Individual muscle fibers from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy at an early stage in their disease, and from apparently normal boys of similar age, were analyzed for 13 enzymes of energy metabolism. This approach avoided the serious problems with muscle homogenate assays from increases in nonparenchymal components and permitted assessment of disease changes in different fiber types. Some enzymes of glycogenolysis (phosphorylase, phosphoglucomutase, and pyruvate kinase) were decreased in dystrophic fibers of all types. Phosphofructokinase was decreased in presumptive type II fibers. Lactate dehydrogenase was increased in type I fibers and essentially unchanged in type II. Phosphoglucoisomerase was near normal. Two enzymes of glucose metabolism not involved in glycogenolysis, hexokinase and glycogen synthase, were near normal, but a third, fructose bisphosphatase, was sharply reduced. Two enzymes of oxidative metabolism, citrate synthase, and beta-hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase, were unchanged or increased. Two enzymes of high energy phosphate transfer, creatine kinase and adenylokinase, were only marginally affected. The net result is to leave the type II fibers, which normally exert the greatest force, with a severe deficit in the glycogenolytic enzyme machinery to maintain that force.
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PMID:Effect of Duchenne muscular dystrophy on enzymes of energy metabolism in individual muscle fibers. 360 Feb 88

The activities of several enzymes of glucose metabolism (glycolytic and tricarboxylic acid pathways) in four different regions of rat brain (cerebellum, medulla oblongata and pons, cerebral cortex and diencephalon) have been studied. Statistical differences were found in the activities of all the enzymes analyzed in the four regions, except in the case of the soluble hexokinase and pyruvate kinase. The changes observed in citrate synthase activity may account for physiological differences in those areas related to myelin formation and energy metabolism. Cerebral cortex and diencephalon showed enzyme activities which were generally greater than those of the cerebellum and medulla oblongata and pons. The results obtained lend support to the concept of a differential energy metabolism in brain regions.
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PMID:Differences in the distribution of energy-metabolizing enzymes in rat brain regions. 361 4


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