scholarly journals Methods for the Determination of Rates of Glucose and Fatty Acid Oxidation in the Isolated Working Rat Heart

Author(s):  
Bhavisha Bakrania ◽  
Joey P. Granger ◽  
Romain Harmancey
1964 ◽  
Vol 206 (6) ◽  
pp. 1217-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving B. Fritz

Carnitine increased oxidation of palmitate-1-C14 by rat heart and liver preparations, but decreased palmitate incorporation into glycerides. To determine which of the effects was derivative and which was primary, experiments were repeated using tissues whose rates of fatty acid oxidation had been depressed by Amytal poisoning. Under these conditions, carnitine inhibition of fatty acid conversion to glycerides was abolished. Similarly, low concentrations of carnitine were found to enhance palmitate oxidation without influencing palmitate esterification. Isolated liver microsomes which synthesized glycerides without oxidizing fatty acids showed no response to carnitine under all conditions tried. The inability of carnitine to alter glyceride formation in experiments described may signify that acyl-CoA generation from CoA and acylcarnitine is specifically directed toward the fatty acid oxidase system rather than to glyceride synthesis. It was also shown that, under conditions optimal for demonstration of carnitine augmentation of fatty acid oxidation by rat heart preparations, carnitine increased palmitate oxidation by a variety of other tissue homogenate preparations.


1973 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. V. Anastasia ◽  
R. L. McCarl

This paper reports the determination of the ability of rat heart cells in culture to release [14C]palmitate from its triglyceride and to oxidize this fatty acid and free [14C]palmitate to 14CO2 when the cells are actively beating and when they stop beating after aging in culture. In addition, the levels of glucose, glycogen, and ATP were determined to relate the concentration of these metabolites with beating and with cessation of beating. When young rat heart cells in culture are actively beating, they oxidize free fatty acids at a rate parallel with cellular ATP production. Both fatty acid oxidation and ATP production remain constant while the cells continue to beat. Furthermore, glucose is removed from the growth medium by the cells and stored as glycogen. When cultured cells stop beating, a decrease is seen in their ability to oxidize free fatty acids and to release them from their corresponding triglycerides. Concomitant with decreased fatty acid oxidation is a decrease in cellular levels of ATP until beating ceases. Midway between initiation of cultures and cessation of beating the cells begin to mobilize the stored glycogen. When the growth medium is supplemented with cortisol acetate and given to cultures which have ceased to beat, reinitiation of beating occurs. Furthermore, all decreases previously observed in ATP levels, fatty acid oxidation, and esterase activity are restored.


Lipids ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 670-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Galli Kienle ◽  
G. Cighetti ◽  
C. Spagnuolo ◽  
C. Galli

1991 ◽  
Vol 279 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Rognstad

The pathways of peroxisomal and mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation were monitored with the use of substrates which produce NAD3H. I used as marker substrates: D-[3-3H]3-hydroxybutyrate for mitochondrial NAD3H production, [2-3H]glycerol for cytosolic NAD3H production, and [2-3H]acetate to measure carbon-bound 3H which was also generated by the metabolism of the commercial 9,10-3H-labelled fatty acids. The assumption that peroxisomal NAD3H can be considered to be equivalent to cytosolic NAD3H was supported using a specific inhibitor of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. The approach involves determination of the specific yields, and the relative distribution on carbons 4 and 6, of 3H in glucose from the marker substrates and the labelled fatty acids. In hepatocytes from clofibrate-treated rats, the amount of palmitate or oleate oxidation which starts in the peroxisomes is comparable with that which starts in the mitochondria.


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