Abstract
The results reported in this paper indicate that dinitrophenol acts directly on the isolated heart, increasing its metabolic rate. It also produces heart failure associated with a low phosphocreatine content of the muscle but with no change in adenosine triphosphate, which may or may not be due to a relative hypoxia of the cardiac tissue. Experimental arterial hypoxaemia, if severe, produces a similar picture of heart failure with a decrease in phosphocreatine and no change in adenosine triphosphate. Ligation of the coronary arteries results in disappearance of the major part of the phosphocreatine within a few minutes regardless of whether or not ventricular fibrillation ensues; the adenosine triphosphate remains unchanged.
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