PMID- 2060863 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19910802 LR - 20191029 IS - 8755-0199 (Print) IS - 8755-0199 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 3 DP - 1991 TI - Oxidative changes in hypoxic-reoxygenated rabbit heart: a consequence of hypoxia rather than reoxygenation. PG - 179-85 AB - Tissue changes consistent with oxidative damage in hypoxic/reoxygenated heart tissue have not been well documented. We recently reported that oxidative perturbations were evident in isolated-perfused rat heart tissue subjected to as little as 10 min hypoxia and that these changes were not exacerbated by reoxygenation. The mechanism and species specificity of this finding is not known. Rabbit hearts, which lack measurable xanthine oxidase activity, were examined for evidence of hypoxia-induced injury. The release of lactate dehydrogenase into the coronary effluent gradually increased during the retrograde perfusion of isolated rabbit hearts with hypoxic medium (containing 10 mM glucose and 2.5 mM calcium), and was slightly enhanced upon reoxygenation after 60 min hypoxia. Cardiac glutathione content decreased significantly while glutathione disulfide, protein-glutathione mixed disulfides, thiobaribturic acid reactive substances (TBARS), and protein carbonyl contents increased significantly after 60 min of hypoxia, compared to oxygenated controls. These values were unaltered after 4 min of reoxygenation except for a loss of TBARS. The oxidative changes observed in hypoxic rabbit hearts may be caused by energy deficiency impairing normal reductive processes or by the generation of reactive oxygen species as a result of abnormal cell functions, but cannot be related to xanthine oxidase activity. FAU - Park, Y AU - Park Y AD - Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas, Austin 78712-1074. FAU - Kehrer, J P AU - Kehrer JP LA - eng GR - HL40695/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - Switzerland TA - Free Radic Res Commun JT - Free radical research communications JID - 8709453 RN - 0 (Free Radicals) RN - GAN16C9B8O (Glutathione) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Coronary Disease/metabolism MH - Free Radicals MH - Glutathione/metabolism MH - Hypoxia/*metabolism MH - In Vitro Techniques MH - Male MH - Myocardial Reperfusion Injury/metabolism MH - Myocardium/*metabolism MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Oxygen/*metabolism MH - Rabbits EDAT- 1991/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 1991/01/01 00:01 CRDT- 1991/01/01 00:00 PHST- 1991/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1991/01/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1991/01/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.3109/10715769109088947 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Free Radic Res Commun. 1991;14(3):179-85. doi: 10.3109/10715769109088947.