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Query: UMLS:C0022116 (ischemia)
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Twenty-four-hour noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) was performed in 131 consecutive elderly subjects (61 with isolated systolic hypertension, ISH; 19 with mixed/diastolic hypertension, MDH; 29 with borderline hypertension, BLH; 23 in the normotensive group, NT). It was found that in ISH blood pressure rised during awaking period and fell during sleeping period (P < 0.05); the circadian systolic blood pressure rhythm was similar to ones in MDH, BLH and NT. However, the circadian diastolic blood pressure rhythm was attenuated in ISH. We conclude that circadian blood pressure rhythm alters in ISH, which may be related to the ischemia in organs, especially cerebral ischemia.
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PMID:[Circadian blood pressure rhythm and its characterization in isolated systolic hypertension (ISH)]. 130 16

Experimental ishemia of rat myocardium was accompanied by increase of light sum (S) and maximal intensity (Imax) of chemiluminescence, amount of a malonic dialdehyde and conjugated dienes in cytoplasmic fraction. The activity of NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.82; NADP-MDH) was 1.6 times higher in rat heart under ischemia. NADP-MDH was purified from normal and ischemia-exposed rat myocardium. Using NADP-MDH purified enzyme preparations the values of Hill coefficient for oxaloacetate (1.83 +/- 0.07 and 1.50 +/- 0.10) and Km for NADPH (0.058 +/- 0.003 and 0.096 +/- 0.004 mM) were determined for the enzyme at norm and under ischemia respectively. Effects of Fe2+, Ca2+, Cu2+ ions, H2O2, oxidized and reduced glutathione, adenine nucleotides influence on functioning of NADP-MDH from rat heart at norm and under ischemic conditions have been investigated.
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PMID:[Free-radical oxidation and regulation of cytoplasmic NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase in rat cardiomyocytes at norm and under ischemia]. 1610 94

Myocardial infarction (MI), the most common symptom is chest pain, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. Electroacupuncture pretreatment (EP) is a recent observation which has been shown to induce ischemic tolerance like the ischemia preconditioning, suggesting that EP may be a promising preventive strategy for individual susceptibility to MI. This study investigated mechanisms that underlie the effect of EP on MI through the use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)-based metabolic profiling. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided to receive or not receive three days of EP at PC6 (Neiguan). Then on the fourth day, each group was further divided to undergo mock surgery or MI, induced by ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. After 24h, the blood samples and hearts were collected for the follow-up research. The results showed that treatment by EP significantly reduced the levels of CK-MB, cTnT, AST, and MDH in serum and decreased myocardial infarction area. According to GC-MS-based serum metabolic profiling and analysis, a total of 636 characteristic peaks were identified, including 158 known and 478 unknown metabolites. MI caused comprehensive metabolic changes in glycolysis-related metabolites, malate-aspartate shuttle (MAS) metabolites, and purine metabolites with anti-oxidant functions, while EP reversed more than half of the differential metabolic changes, mainly affecting amino acid and energy metabolism, especially the glutamate metabolism and MAS. In a word, our findings suggest that EP exerts its cardioprotective effect on MI by regulating amino acid and energy metabolisms. Meanwhile, GC-MS-based metabolomics provided a powerful way to characterize the metabolic features of MI, with and without EP, and thereby improved our understanding of the effect and mechanisms of EP.
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PMID:Changes in the Serum Metabolome of Acute Myocardial Ischemia Rat Pretreatment with Electroacupuncture. 3132 37