AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 262, Issue 6 E943-E947, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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NMR-invisible ATP in heart: fact or fiction?

M. I. Bak and J. S. Ingwall
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

31P-nuclear magnetic resonance (31P-NMR) spectroscopy is widely used to monitor sequential changes in the nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) pool in intact tissues. Recently, the validity of this technique to quantitate incremental changes in ATP in heart has been challenged. Accordingly, we compared NTP measured by 31P-NMR and by chemical techniques in isolated isovolumic rat hearts at 16 and 56 min of oxygenated perfusion and in hearts subjected to 28 min of hypoxia, with or without 28 min of reoxygenation, and 12 or 28 min of ischemia, with or without 28 min of reperfusion. NTP content was calculated from 31P-NMR spectra using an external standard. At the end of each protocol the heart was freeze-clamped, and NTP and ATP contents were determined by chemical assay. After 16 min of normoxic perfusion the values for NTP and ATP contents measured by both methods in the same hearts were indistinguishable. Results from all seven experimental conditions show no significant difference between methods (P = 0.262). Thus both methods detect the same incremental change in NTP and ATP.

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