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J Physiol Vol 491, Issue Pt 2 pp 455-463
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Minimal role of nitric oxide in basal coronary flow regulation and cardiac energetics of blood-perfused isolated canine heart.

 A Saeki, F A Recchia, H Senzaki and D A Kass

Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.

1. The role of nitric oxide (NO) in the regulation of basal coronary perfusion and ventricular chamber energetics was studied in isovolumetrically contracting isolated blood-perfused canine hearts. Hearts were cross-perfused by a donor animal prior to isolation, and chamber volume controlled by a servo-pump. Coronary sinus flow and arterial-coronary sinus oxygen difference were measured to determine energetic efficiency. 2. NO synthase (NOS) was competitively inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA; 0.5 mg kg-1, intracoronary), resulting in a reduction of acetylcholine (50 micrograms min-1)-induced flow augmentation from 143 to 62% (P < 0.001). 3. NOS inhibition had no significant effect on basal coronary flow. Coronary pressure-flow relationships were determined at a constant cardiac workload by varying mean perfusion pressure between 20 and 150 mmHg. Neither the shape of the relationship, nor the low-pressure value at which flow regulation was substantially diminished were altered by NOS inhibition. 4. Myocardial efficiency was assessed by the relationship between myocardial oxygen consumption and total pressure-volume area (PVA), with cavity volume altered to generate varying PVAs. This relative load-independent measure of energetic efficiency was minimally altered by NOS inhibition. 5. These results contrast with isolated crystalloid-perfused heart experiments and suggest that in hearts with highly controlled ventricular loading and whole-blood perfusion, effects of basal NO production on coronary perfusion and left ventricular energetics are minimal.




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