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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 103, 206-209, Copyright © 1992 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Cardiac 5'-nucleotidase activity increases with age and inversely relates to recovery from ischemia

MA Grosso, A Banerjee, JA St Cyr, KB Rogers, JM Brown, DR Clarke, DN Campbell and AH Harken
Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262.

The metabolic basis for the enhanced tolerance of immature hearts to ischemia remains to be elucidated. Loss of high-energy phosphate nucleotides occurs during ischemia/reperfusion in mature (adult) hearts through the breakdown of adenosine triphosphate, diphosphate, and monophosphate (nondiffusible) to adenosine (freely diffusible). However, previous work has shown that after ischemia nondiffusible nucleotides are better retained by immature (neonatal) hearts than by mature hearts. The enzyme responsible for the conversion of adenosine monophosphate to adenosine is 5'-nucleotidase. We therefore hypothesized lower activity of this enzyme in neonatal than in adult myocardium. The purposes of this study were (1) to document 5'- nucleotidase activities in neonatal and adult rabbit myocardium and (2) to correlate differences of 5'-nucleotidase activity with functional recovery from ischemia. Neonatal (5- to 10-day-old) and adult (4- to 6- month-old) rabbit hearts were isolated and perfused (retrograde Langendorff). A left ventricular balloon measured functional parameters. Hearts were subjected to 20 minutes of global 37 degrees C ischemia and 10 minutes of reperfusion followed by freeze clamping. Tissue homogenates were assayed for 5'-nucleotidase by the linked formation of nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide at 340 nm (Arkesteijn method). Postischemic recovery of developed pressure was 86% +/- 3% in neonates (n = 5) versus 38% +/- 3% in adults (n = 8) (mean +/- standard deviation) (p less than 0.01). 5'-Nucleotidase activity was 4400 +/- 1208 nmol/min/gm in neonates (n = 5) versus 13,938 +/- 830 nmol/min/gm in adults (n = 8) (mean +/- standard deviation) (p less than 0.01). We conclude that (1) 5'-nucleotidase activity is 68% lower in neonatal than in adult myocardium and (2) functional recovery after ischemia inversely relates to 5'-nucleotidase activity.


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