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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 245: E19-E23, 1983;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 245, Issue 1 19-E23, Copyright © 1983 by American Physiological Society

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Fatty acid and glucose utilization in isolated, working fetal pig hearts

J. C. Werner, V. Whitman, R. R. Fripp, H. G. Schuler, J. Musselman and R. L. Sham

Fatty acid uptake and the effects of long- and short-chain fatty acids on glucose utilization were assessed in isolated perfused fetal pig hearts (0.9 gestation) in which oxygenated nutrient buffer was pumped from both ventricles at controlled pressure (55 mmHg, mean arterial pressure) and heart rate (180 beats/min). When either 1.5 mM palmitate or 1.0 mM octanoate was added to buffer containing 10 mM glucose and insulin (100 microU/ml), glucose uptake, as measured by 3H2O production from D-[2-3H]glucose, was suppressed when compared with glucose uptake in the absence of fatty acid. Increased tissue concentrations of glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 6-phosphate, and citrate in hearts perfused with buffer containing octanoate indicated active beta-oxidation and inhibition of phosphofructokinase activity when compared with hearts perfused with glucose alone. In contrast, hearts perfused with buffer containing palmitate showed no increases in these metabolic intermediates. These results suggest that suppression of glucose uptake in the presence of long-chain fatty acid was not the result of phosphofructokinase inhibition but may result from inhibition of glucose transport by palmitate. Determinations of tissue concentrations of free carnitine and carnitine derivatives indicated that, although palmitate underwent esterification to long-chain acyl carnitine in the fetal heart, it failed to undergo extensive beta-oxidation.


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