PYRUVATE-DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT CEREBRAL-CORTEX FOLLOWING CEREBRAL-ISCHEMIA
PYRUVATE-DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT CEREBRAL-CORTEX FOLLOWING CEREBRAL-ISCHEMIA
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DOI:
10.1038/jcbfm.1989.53
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发表时间:
1989-06-01
影响因子:
6.3
通讯作者:
WIELOCH, T
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作者:
CARDELL, M;KOIDE, T;WIELOCH, T
The effect of cerebral ischemia on the activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) enzyme complex (PDHC) was investigated in homogenates fo froxen ratcerebral cortex followign 15 min of bilateral common carotid occulusion ischemia and following 15 min, 60 min, and 6 h of recirculation after 15 min of ischemia. In frozen cortical tissue from the same animals, the levels of labile phosphate compounds, glucose, glycogen, lactate, and pyruvate were determined. In cortex from control animals, the rate of [1-14C]pyruvate decarboxylation was 9.6 .+-. nmol CO2(min-mg protein) or 40% of the total PDHC activity. This fraction increased to 89% at the end of 15 min of ischemia. At 15 min of recirculation following 15 min of ischemia, the PDHC activity decreased to 50% of control levels and was drpressed for up to 6 h post ischemia. This decrease in activity was not due to a decrease in total PDHC activity. Apart from a reduction in ATP levels, the acute changes in the levels of energy metabolites were essentially normalized at 6 H of recovery. Dichloracetate (DCA), an inhibitor of PDH kinase, given to rats at 250 mg/kg i.p. four times over 2 h, significantly decreased blood glucose levels form 7.4 .+-. 0.6 to 5.1 to 0.3 mmol/L and fully activated PDHC. In animals in which the plasma glucose level was maintained at control levels of 8.3 .+-. 0.5 .mu.mol/g by intravenous infusion of glucose, the active portion of PDHC increased to 95 .+-. 4%. In contrast, the depressed PDHC activity at 15 min followign ischemia was not affected by the DCA treatment. In both DCA + glucose-treated control and recovery groups, the pyruvate levels decreased by 50%. No significant difference in the lactate levels was seen. We conclude that the depressed postischemic PDHC activity is not due to loss of enzyme protein nor to an increased PDH kinase activity, but is probably due to a decrase activity of PDH phosphatase. This could in turn be secondary to a change in the cellular levels of PDG phosphatase regulators, most probably a decreased intramitochondrial concentration of calcim. The postischemic decreases in PDH activity may be related to the postichemic metabolic depression.