Global depletion of myocardial norepinephrine and ATP after left coronary artery occlusion in rats
Abstract
After ligation of the left coronary artery in rats, myocardial norepinephrine (NE) and ATP depletions in both infarcted (IZ) and non-infarcted zone (NIZ) were studied. In IZ, the depletions of NE and ATP were biphasic and the depleting rate constants were found to be K1 = 0.71 h-1 and K2 = 0.015 h-1 for NE, and K1' = 0.52 h-1 and K2' = 0.016 h-1 for ATP. In NIZ, the depletion of NE was monophasic, slowly progressive, and quite durable with rate constant K3 = 0.018 h-1. The depletion of ATP was transient. Propranolol (Pro) and verapamil (Ver) were beneficial but only partly effective against NE and ATP depletions.
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