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. 1980 Jul;304:1–20. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1980.sp013306

Release of prostaglandins from the isolated frog ventricle and associated changes in endogenous cyclic nucleotide levels.

F W Flitney, J Singh
PMCID: PMC1282912  PMID: 6255139

Abstract

1. A study has been made of the decline in contractility and some associated metabolic changes which occur in the isolated frog ventricle during the development of hypodynamic depression. 2. The release of two identified prostaglandins (PG), E1 and E2, together with several as yet unknown prostaglandin-related substances (PRS), accompanies the development of hypodynamic depression. There is a close correlation between the extent to which the isometric twitch is depressed and the quantity of prostaglandin released into the superfusate. 3. Fractionation of extracts of 'used' superfusates, using preparative-scale thin-layer chromatography, revealed the presence of six major components, four of which (PGE1 and PGE2 and two unidentified components) were found to be cardioactive and potentiated contraction when tested subsequently on hypodynamic preparations. 4. Two agents which influence prostaglandin biosynthesis, arachidonic acid and indomethacin, are found to affect both the rate at which the hypodynamic state develops and the extent to which the 'steady-state' twitch tension is depressed, in a dose-dependent manner. Indomethacin, a PG-synthetase inhibitor, accelerates the decay and depresses the final 'steady-state' tension attained, whereas arachidonic acid, the principal precursor for prostaglandin biosynthesis, has the converse effects. 5. Measurements of endogenous 3'5'-cyclic nucleotide levels reveal a time-dependent decrease in intracellular adenosine 3'5'-cyclic monophosphate (3'5'-cyclic AMP) and a concomitant increase in guanosine 3'5' cyclic monophosphate (3'5'-cyclic GMP). The decline in isometric twitch tension is paralleled almost exactly by an equivalent reduction in the ratio 3'5'-cyclic AMP: 3'5'-cyclic GMP. 6. Superfusion of isolated ventricles with Ringer solution containing exogenous, lipid-soluble derivatives of 3'5'-cyclic AMP and 3'5'-cyclic GMP affects both the rate of decline of the isometric twitch and the steady-state tension ultimately reached: thus, 8-bromo-3'5'-cyclic GMP accelerates the decline in contractility and depresses the steady-state level, whereas dibutyryl 3'5'-cyclic AMP delays the development of hypodynamic depression, and elevates the final twitch tension. The effects of both 3'5' cyclic nucleotide derivatives are dose-dependent. 7. The possible involvement of prostaglandins and 3'5'-cyclic nucleotides as causal agents in the mechanism of hypodynamic depression is discussed. The biochemical basis for the implied antangonistic effects of 3'5'-cyclic AMP and 3'5'-cyclic GMP in regulating ventricular contractility is considered in the following paper (Flitney & Singh, 1980).

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