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The level of adenosine was measured in monthly biopsied livers from rats fed ethanol and a high fat/low protein diet in order to test a hypothesis that hepatic adenosine is increased due to enhanced breakdown of adenine nucleotides in which ATP and total adenylate pool were decreased by chronic ethanol feeding. The ethanol-fed rats showed a significantly higher average level of adenosine compared to the pair-fed controls. When investigated monthly, however, adenosine in ethanol-fed rats increased only after the decrease in ATP had stabilized and AMP remained unchanged, indicating that these changes were not temporarily related. The average percentage of change in adenosine after acute hyperoxia or hypoxia were variable both in ethanol-fed and pair-fed rats. There was a tendency for a positive correlation between the percentage of change of adenosine and AMP after hyperoxia regardless of ethanol feeding. A negative correlation between the percentage of change of adenosine and energy charge, and a positive correlation between the percentage of change of adenosine and AMP were seen after hypoxia regardless of ethanol feeding. Adenosine levels changed rapidly in response to changes in systemic of pO2 in both the ethanol-fed and control rats, indicating that the liver maintained its normal response to the changes in energy state. The results indicate that chronic ethanol feeding does increase the level of adenosine in the liver and that this level remains responsive to acute changes in pO2.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Hepatic adenosine in rats fed ethanol: effect of acute hyperoxia or hypoxia. 305 72

Further characteristics of an oxygen-tolerant variant of Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-99) capable of stable proliferation at 99% O2/1% CO2, and O2 level that is lethal to the parental line (CHO-20), are described. Previous work has revealed that CHO-99 cells have 2- to 4-fold increased activities of superoxide dismutases, catalase and glutathione peroxidase, and substantially increased relative volumes of mitochondria and peroxisomes. To document possible additional mechanisms of O2 tolerance we compared CHO-20 cells growing at 20% O2 (normoxia) and CHO-99 cells at 99% O2 (normobaric hyperoxia). We show the following: (1) the estimated total (oxidative and glycolytic) ATP production in CHO-99 cells was 36% decreased. ATP production through oxidative phosphorylation was 52% lower in CHO-99 cells, while the relative contribution from glycolysis was increased from 6% to 30%. The ATP content was 29% lower in CHO-99 cells, the adenylate energy charge being also significantly decreased, indicating that energy production through oxidative phosphorylation is compromised in CHO-99 cells. Cyanide-resistant respiration was 4-fold higher in CHO-99 cells, probably reflecting, at least partly, the increased peroxisomal activity in these cells. (2) The level of reduced glutathione was several fold increased in CHO-99 cells, oxidized glutathione being unaltered; (NADPH + NADP+) levels were elevated 2.7-fold, while the ratio of NADPH to NADP+ was increased almost two-fold. These changes were associated with a 50% increased metabolism of glucose through the hexose monophosphate pathway. (3) No evidence was obtained for an increased steady-state level of endogenous lipid peroxidation in CHO-99 cells, in spite of a 50% increased content of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the phospholipid fraction.
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PMID:Characterization of oxygen-tolerant Chinese hamster ovary cells. II. Energy metabolism and antioxidant status. 338 44

Breathing of 100% oxygen at ambient pressure causes disorders in mouse brain organic phosphate phosphocreatine (PC), ATP, ADP, and AMP. The fast increase in PC level attains a maximum augmentation of about 50% after 16-18 h of exposure with subsequent slight alterations between 18 and 50 h. The initial losses (a) in ATP amount to approximately 20% after 4 h; (b) in ADP, 32% after 6-8 h; and (c) in AMP, about 40% after 30 min and 50% after 50 h. contrary to the continual decrease in AMP, the ATP and ADP values exhibit a later increase to a constant level during the full time of exposure up to 50 h. The initial loss in adenosine nucleotides points to an intense effect of hyperoxia in nerve cell metabolism with subsequent attainment of a new adenylate equilibrium at lower concentrations. The increased but constant level of PC may be due to an inhibition of the oxygen sensitive SH-groups, which are an essential center in the creatine kinase. Although the absolute concentration of AMP is by far the lowest of the three nucleotides, the continual decrease in AMP is of considerable importance because of its direct response to ATP via adenylate kinase reaction.
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PMID:Brain energy metabolism in mice exposed to oxygen at 1 atmosphere absolute. 733 82