New method to determine oxygen cost for contractility.
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Physiological Society of Japan in The Japanese Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 40 (1) , 127-138
- https://doi.org/10.2170/jjphysiol.40.127
Abstract
We developed a new method to determine the oxygen cost for myocardial contractility and applied it to epinephrine in the excised cross-circulated dog heart. We utilized the relation between myocardial oxygen consumption (VO2) and the systolic pressure-volume area (PVA) which represents the total mechanical energy generated by contraction. We first obtained a reference VO2-PVA relation in a baseline contractile state. Then, the end-diastolic and stroke volumes were fixed constant and a global index of ventricular contractility, Emax, was enhanced by infusing epinephrine. The VO2-PVA data point was shifted linearly right-upward with the increases in Emax. From the slopes of both the reference VO2-PVA relation line and the regression line of VO2 on PVA during the gradually increased Emax, we calculated the oxygen cost for contractility, i.e., the ratio of the elevation of the VO2-PVA relation to enhanced Emax in each heart. The ratio was 0.00095 .+-. 0.00013 ml O2 .cntdot. ml .cntdot. mmHg-1 .cntdot. beat-1 .cntdot. 100 g LV-2. The result indicates that the oxygen cost for contractility can be reliably and efficiently determined by this new method.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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