Smooth muscle and NMR review: An overview of smooth muscle metabolism

2003 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Shinsuke Nakayama ◽  
Joseph F. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Muscle Metabolism

Effects of substrate and hypoxia on smooth muscle metabolism and contraction

1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (4) ◽  
pp. C719-C727 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. R. Wendt
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Urinary Bladder ◽  
Heat Production ◽  
Lactate Production ◽  
Muscle Metabolism ◽  
Anaerobic Conditions ◽  
Aerobic Conditions ◽  
Sufficient Energy ◽  
Rabbit Urinary Bladder

Suprabasal heat production, oxygen consumption, and lactate production were measured, together with force, in 30-s isometric contractions of longitudinal smooth muscle from rabbit urinary bladder at 27 degrees C. Either glucose or pyruvate was provided as exogenous substrate. Under aerobic conditions with glucose as substrate, force averaged 95 mN/mm2 and heat production 121 mJ/g. Oxygen consumption (0.18 mumol/g) could account for only two-thirds of the total energy expenditure represented as heat production. The remaining one-third was accounted for by aerobic lactate production (0.36 mumol/g). When pyruvate replaced glucose as substrate, both the force developed and the total heat liberated were unchanged. Oxygen consumption, however, increased by approximately 40% (to 0.25 mumol/g) and was able to fully account for the measured heat production. The frequency of spontaneous contractions under aerobic conditions was always reduced in the presence of pyruvate. Under anaerobic conditions force was essentially unaltered, and heat production was only slightly reduced (101 mJ/g) with glucose present. Lactate production increased threefold over that under aerobic conditions. With pyruvate as substrate both force and heat production declined markedly (to less than 5% of the aerobic values). The results indicate that under aerobic conditions and with glucose as substrate, smooth muscle of rabbit urinary bladder generates about one-third of its suprabasal energy requirements through glycolysis and that glycolysis can be further accelerated under anaerobic conditions to provide sufficient energy to sustain contraction. If pyruvate replaces glucose as substrate, the metabolism shifts to being virtually all oxidative, and contraction can no longer be sustained in the absence of oxygen.

scholarly journals Effect of serum albumin on vascular smooth muscle metabolism

2000 ◽  
Vol 1459 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T Barron ◽  
Liping Gu ◽  
E.Rene Rodriguez ◽  
Joseph E Parrillo
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Serum Albumin ◽  
Muscle Metabolism

Influence of glycogen storage on vascular smooth muscle metabolism

2000 ◽  
Vol 278 (6) ◽  
pp. H1993-H2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara J. Allen ◽  
Christopher D. Hardin
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Glycogen Content ◽  
Lactate Production ◽  
Muscle Metabolism ◽  
Substrate Oxidation ◽  
Glycogen Storage ◽  
Physiological Salt Solution ◽  
Substrate Selection ◽  
Glucose Flux

The role of glycogen as an oxidative substrate for vascular smooth muscle (VSM) remains controversial. To elucidate the importance of glycogen as an oxidative substrate and the influence of glycogen flux on VSM substrate selection, we systematically altered glycogen levels and measured metabolism of glucose, acetate, and glycogen. Hog carotid arteries with glycogen contents ranging from 1 to 11 μmol/g were isometrically contracted in physiological salt solution containing 5 mM [1-13C]glucose and 1 mM [1,2-13C]acetate at 37°C for 6 h. [1-13C]glucose, [1,2-13C]acetate, and glycogen oxidation were simultaneously measured with the use of a 13C-labeled isotopomer analysis of glutamate. Although oxidation of glycogen increased with the glycogen content of the tissue, glycogen oxidation contributed only ∼10% of the substrate oxidized by VSM. Whereas [1-13C]glucose flux, [3-13C]lactate production from [1-13C]glucose, and [1,2-13C]acetate oxidation were not regulated by glycogen content, [1-13C]glucose oxidation was significantly affected by the glycogen content of VSM. However, [1-13C]glucose remained the primary (∼40–50%) contributor to substrate oxidation. Therefore, we conclude that glucose is the predominate substrate oxidized by VSM, and glycogen oxidation contributes minimally to substrate oxidation.

Production of lactic acid and energy metabolism in vascular smooth muscle: effect of dichloroacetate

1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (2) ◽  
pp. H713-H719 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Barron ◽  
J. E. Parrillo
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Lactic Acid ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Glucose Oxidation ◽  
Lactate Production ◽  
Muscle Metabolism ◽  
Tca Cycle ◽  
The Tca Cycle ◽  
Optimal Coordination

Vascular smooth muscle metabolism is characterized by substantial production of lactic acid even under fully oxygenated conditions. The role the aerobic production of lactate plays in the energetics of smooth muscle is obscure and was investigated in this study. Helical strips of porcine carotid arteries were incubated in medium containing 1 mM dichloroacetate (DCA), an agent that stimulates pyruvate dehydrogenase and promotes the oxidation of glucose. Lactate production in resting muscle was decreased in the presence of DCA (0.033 +/- 0.006 vs. 0.111 +/- 0.014 mumol.g-1.min-1, P < 0.02), indicating diversion of glucose metabolism from lactate production to enhanced glucose oxidation. This was associated with reduction in the level of ATP+phosphocreatine (PCr) (0.99 +/- 0.01 vs. 1.40 +/- 0.09 mumol/g, P < 0.05) and cataplerosis of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Contraction by KCl was also associated with reduced lactate production in the presence of DCA (0.086 +/- 0.017 vs. 0.20 +/- 0.002 mumol.g-1.min-1, P < 0.01), but ATP+PCr normalized, and there was anaplerosis of the TCA cycle. Glycogen in control arteries declined by approximately 1.3 mumol/g over 30 min K+ contraction but was unchanged in the presence of DCA. By calculation, the glycogen spared could be accounted for by the quantity of glucose diverted from lactate production to glucose oxidation during contraction. It is concluded that the aerobic production of lactate is a mechanism affording optimal coordination and modulation of glucose supply and oxidative energy production with energy demand.

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