Abstract
We investigated whether nitroglycerin (NTG) was able to produce an anti-ischaemic effect in isolated working hearts of rats with vascular tolerance to NTG. Hearts isolated from tolerant and non-tolerant rats were subjected to 10 min coronary occlusion in the presence of 10(-7) M NTG and/or its solvent. NTG alleviated ischaemia-induced deterioration of cardiac function and decreased lactate dehydrogenase release whilst having no effect on coronary flow nor the area of the ischaemic zone both in hearts isolated from NTG-tolerant and non-tolerant rats. The magnitude of the effect was similar in the two groups. These results suggest that the anti-ischaemic effect of NTG involves direct myocardial mechanisms independent of its vascular action and that vascular tolerance to NTG does not affect this direct protective action.
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