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Allen-Waller LR, Jones KG, Martynek MP, Brown KT, Barott KL. Comparative physiology reveals heat stress disrupts acid-base homeostasis independent of symbiotic state in the model cnidarian Exaiptasia diaphana. J Exp Biol 2024; 227:jeb246222. [PMID: 38269486 PMCID: PMC10911193 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.246222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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Climate change threatens the survival of symbiotic cnidarians by causing photosymbiosis breakdown in a process known as bleaching. Direct effects of temperature on cnidarian host physiology remain difficult to describe because heatwaves depress symbiont performance, leading to host stress and starvation. The symbiotic sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana provides an opportune system to disentangle direct versus indirect heat effects on the host, as it can survive indefinitely without symbionts. We tested the hypothesis that heat directly impairs cnidarian physiology by comparing symbiotic and aposymbiotic individuals of two laboratory subpopulations of a commonly used clonal strain of E. diaphana, CC7. We exposed anemones to a range of temperatures (ambient, +2°C, +4°C and +6°C) for 15-18 days, then measured their symbiont population densities, autotrophic carbon assimilation and translocation, photosynthesis, respiration and host intracellular pH (pHi). Symbiotic anemones from the two subpopulations differed in size and symbiont density and exhibited distinct heat stress responses, highlighting the importance of acclimation to different laboratory conditions. Specifically, the cohort with higher initial symbiont densities experienced dose-dependent symbiont loss with increasing temperature and a corresponding decline in host photosynthate accumulation. In contrast, the cohort with lower initial symbiont densities did not lose symbionts or assimilate less photosynthate when heated, similar to the response of aposymbiotic anemones. However, anemone pHi decreased at higher temperatures regardless of cohort, symbiont presence or photosynthate translocation, indicating that heat consistently disrupts cnidarian acid-base homeostasis independent of symbiotic status or mutualism breakdown. Thus, pH regulation may be a critical vulnerability for cnidarians in a changing climate.
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Heimburg T. The thermodynamic soliton theory of the nervous impulse and possible medical implications. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2022; 173:24-35. [PMID: 35640761 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2022.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The textbook picture of nerve activity is that of a propagating voltage pulse driven by electrical currents through ion channel proteins, which are gated by changes in voltage, temperature, pressure or by drugs. All function is directly attributed to single molecules. We show that this leaves out many important thermodynamic couplings between different variables. A more recent alternative picture for the nerve pulse is of thermodynamic nature. It considers the nerve pulse as a soliton, i.e., a macroscopic excited region with properties that are influenced by thermodynamic variables including voltage, temperature, pressure and chemical potentials of membrane components. All thermodynamic variables are strictly coupled. We discuss the consequences for medical treatment in a view where one can compensate a maladjustment of one variable by adjusting another variable. For instance, one can explain why anesthesia can be counteracted by hydrostatic pressure and decrease in pH, suggest reasons why lithium over-dose may lead to tremor, and how tremor is related to alcohol intoxication. Lithium action as well as the effect of ethanol and the anesthetic ketamine in bipolar patients may fall in similar thermodynamic patterns. Such couplings remain obscure in a purely molecular picture. Other fields of application are the response of nerve activity to muscle stretching and the possibility of neural stimulation by ultrasound.
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- T Heimburg
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
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Shabeeba A, Sidheekha MP, Rajan L, Ismail YA. Flexible hybrid film of polypyrrole incorporated chitosan as a biomimetic multistep electrochemical sensor of working temperature: a potentiodynamic study. RSC Adv 2022; 12:31911-31922. [DOI: 10.1039/d2ra05482e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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A flexible polypyrrole/hydrogel hybrid film composed of macromolecular electrochemical machines is considered as a model material of the intracellular matrix of ectothermic muscle cells capable of sensing ambient thermal energy.
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- Aranhikundan Shabeeba
- Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Kerala 673635, India
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- Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Kerala 673635, India
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- Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Kerala 673635, India
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- Advanced Materials Research Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Kerala 673635, India
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Williams CJA, Hansen K, Williams N, Jakobsen SR, Pedersen CCE, Bertelsen MF, Wang T. The influence of assisted ventilation and recumbency on cardiorespiratory physiology in the anesthetized freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta scripta. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2021; 260:111036. [PMID: 34256130 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.111036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The use of assisted ventilation is required in anesthetized reptiles as their respiratory drive is lost at surgical depths of anesthesia. The minute volume of the assisted ventilation influences arterial blood gases and acid-base regulation. Meanwhile, the ventilatory pattern may also affect hemodynamics in chelonians, which, given their large capacity for cardiac shunts, may impact the efficacy of the ventilation in terms of gas exchange. Hence, there is a need for primary information on the influence of assisted ventilation on chelonian physiology, and we, therefore, performed a randomized study into the effects of recumbency and maximum airway pressure on pressure-cycled ventilation in nine female Trachemys scripta scripta. Pronounced effects of ventilation pressure on arterial PCO2 and pH regardless of recumbency were revealed, whilst dorsal recumbency led to a larger Arterial-alveolar (A-a) O2 difference, suggesting compromised pulmonary gas exchange. Plasma [Na+] and [K+] balance was also significantly correlated with maximum airway pressure. Computed tomography (CT) scanning at a range of end-inspiratory pressures and ventral and dorsal recumbencies in eight T. scripta scripta showed that lung volumes increase with maximum ventilatory pressure, while recumbency did not influence volume at pressures above 5 cmH2O. Static compliance of the lungs was influenced by recumbency at neutral pressures. In conclusion, dorsal recumbency reduces pulmonary efficacy during positive pressure ventilation and tends to lower lung volume when ventilation is not provided. However, lung volumes and function - even in dorsal recumbency - can be adequately supported by assisted ventilation, and an end inspiratory pressure of 10 cmH2O at 4 breaths min-1 provided the most physiologically appropriate ventilation of anesthetized T. scripta scripta.
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- Catherine J A Williams
- Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark; Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph, Canada.
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- Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark; Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine (Comparative Medicine Lab), Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Kim AB, Milsom WK. pH regulation in hibernation: Implications for ventilatory and metabolic control. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2019; 237:110536. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.110536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 08/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Otero TF, Beaumont S. The cooperative actuation of multistep electrochemical molecular machines senses the working temperature: voltammetric study. Electrochim Acta 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.10.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Beaumont S, Otero TF. A Potentiostatic/Galvanostatic Study and Theoretical Description of Polypyrrole Film Electrodes: A Model of the Intracellular Matrix of Ectothermic Muscle Cells. ChemElectroChem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.201700915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Samuel Beaumont
- Laboratory of Electrochemistry Intelligent Materials and Devices; Technical University of Cartagena; ETSII. Campus Alfonso XIII. 30203. Cartagena Spain
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- Laboratory of Electrochemistry Intelligent Materials and Devices; Technical University of Cartagena; ETSII. Campus Alfonso XIII. 30203. Cartagena Spain
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Malte CL, Jakobsen SL, Wang T. A critical evaluation of automated blood gas measurements in comparative respiratory physiology. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2014; 178:7-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Revised: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Wu CL, Li BY, Wu JL, Hui CF. The activity of carp muscle-specific creatine kinase at low temperature is enhanced by decreased hydrophobicity of residue 268. Physiol Biochem Zool 2014; 87:507-16. [PMID: 24940915 DOI: 10.1086/676466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Abstract The muscle-specific forms of creatine kinase in rabbit (RM-CK) and carp (M1-CK) exhibit different temperature-dependent functional properties. Replacing the glycine at residue 268 of RM-CK with asparagine increases the enzyme's activity at 10°C. In this study, we investigated how hydrophobicity of residue 268 affects the biochemical properties of RM-CK and M1-CK at low temperature. We generated three mutants of both RM-CK and M1-CK: Asp268, Lys268, and Leu268. The secondary structures of these mutants were similar, as revealed by their circular dichroism spectra. Similar to the Asn268 mutants, the Asp268 and Lys268 mutants of RM-CK and M1-CK exhibited higher specific activities at 10°C and pH 8.0. However, no such effect was observed for the RM-CK and M1-CK Leu268 mutants. While in the presence of cryoprotectant (sucrose or trehalose), the activities of wild-type RM-CK and M1-CK mutant enzymes with a hydrophobic residue at 268 were higher, and the effect was more profound at pH 8.0. It may be inferred that water molecules affect protein conformation around residue 268, thereby influencing protein stability at low temperature.
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- Chih-Lu Wu
- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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Malan A. The Evolution of Mammalian Hibernation: Lessons from Comparative Acid-Base Physiology. Integr Comp Biol 2014; 54:484-96. [DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Central chemoreception traditionally refers to a change in ventilation attributable to changes in CO2/H(+) detected within the brain. Interest in central chemoreception has grown substantially since the previous Handbook of Physiology published in 1986. Initially, central chemoreception was localized to areas on the ventral medullary surface, a hypothesis complemented by the recent identification of neurons with specific phenotypes near one of these areas as putative chemoreceptor cells. However, there is substantial evidence that many sites participate in central chemoreception some located at a distance from the ventral medulla. Functionally, central chemoreception, via the sensing of brain interstitial fluid H(+), serves to detect and integrate information on (i) alveolar ventilation (arterial PCO2), (ii) brain blood flow and metabolism, and (iii) acid-base balance, and, in response, can affect breathing, airway resistance, blood pressure (sympathetic tone), and arousal. In addition, central chemoreception provides a tonic "drive" (source of excitation) at the normal, baseline PCO2 level that maintains a degree of functional connectivity among brainstem respiratory neurons necessary to produce eupneic breathing. Central chemoreception responds to small variations in PCO2 to regulate normal gas exchange and to large changes in PCO2 to minimize acid-base changes. Central chemoreceptor sites vary in function with sex and with development. From an evolutionary perspective, central chemoreception grew out of the demands posed by air versus water breathing, homeothermy, sleep, optimization of the work of breathing with the "ideal" arterial PCO2, and the maintenance of the appropriate pH at 37°C for optimal protein structure and function.
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- Eugene Nattie
- Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Physiology, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
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Central chemoreception traditionally refers to a change in ventilation attributable to changes in CO2/H(+) detected within the brain. Interest in central chemoreception has grown substantially since the previous Handbook of Physiology published in 1986. Initially, central chemoreception was localized to areas on the ventral medullary surface, a hypothesis complemented by the recent identification of neurons with specific phenotypes near one of these areas as putative chemoreceptor cells. However, there is substantial evidence that many sites participate in central chemoreception some located at a distance from the ventral medulla. Functionally, central chemoreception, via the sensing of brain interstitial fluid H(+), serves to detect and integrate information on (i) alveolar ventilation (arterial PCO2), (ii) brain blood flow and metabolism, and (iii) acid-base balance, and, in response, can affect breathing, airway resistance, blood pressure (sympathetic tone), and arousal. In addition, central chemoreception provides a tonic "drive" (source of excitation) at the normal, baseline PCO2 level that maintains a degree of functional connectivity among brainstem respiratory neurons necessary to produce eupneic breathing. Central chemoreception responds to small variations in PCO2 to regulate normal gas exchange and to large changes in PCO2 to minimize acid-base changes. Central chemoreceptor sites vary in function with sex and with development. From an evolutionary perspective, central chemoreception grew out of the demands posed by air versus water breathing, homeothermy, sleep, optimization of the work of breathing with the "ideal" arterial PCO2, and the maintenance of the appropriate pH at 37°C for optimal protein structure and function.
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- Eugene Nattie
- Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Physiology, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
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Warren DE, Jackson DC. Effects of temperature on anoxic submergence: skeletal buffering, lactate distribution, and glycogen utilization in the turtle, Trachemys scripta. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2007; 293:R458-67. [PMID: 17395788 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00174.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To test the hypothesis that submergence temperature affects the distribution of the lactate load and glycogen utilization during anoxia in turtles, we sampled a variety of tissues after 7 days, 24 h, and 4 h of anoxic submergence at 5, 15, and 25°C, respectively. These anoxic durations were chosen because we found that they produced similar decreases in plasma HCO3− (∼18–22 meq/l). The sampled tissues included ventricle, liver, small intestine, carapace, and the following muscles: flexor digitorum longus, retrahens capitis, iliofibularis, and pectoralis. Shell and skeleton sequestered 41.9, 34.1, and 26.1% of the estimated lactate load at 5, 15, and 25°C. The changes in plasma Ca2+ and Mg2+, relative to the estimated lactate load, decreased with increased temperature, indicating greater buffer release from bone at colder temperatures. Tissue lactate contents, relative to plasma lactate, increased with the temperature of the submergence. Glucose mobilization and tissue glycogen utilization were more pronounced at 15 and 25°C than at 5°C. We conclude that, in slider turtles, the ability of the mineralized tissue to participate in the buffering of lactic acid during anoxia is inversely related to temperature, causing the lactate burden to shift to the tissues at warmer temperatures. Muscles utilize glycogen during anoxia more at warmer temperatures.
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- Daniel E Warren
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
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Vezzoli A, Gussoni M, Greco F, Zetta L, Cerretelli P. Temperature and pH dependence of energy balance by (31)P- and (1)H-MRS in anaerobic frog muscle. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2004; 1608:163-70. [PMID: 14871494 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2003.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2003] [Revised: 10/22/2003] [Accepted: 11/27/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The temperature (T)-dependence of energy consumption of resting anaerobic frog gastrocnemii exposed to different, changing electrochemical gradients was assessed. To this aim, the rate of ATP resynthesis (delta approximately P/deltat) was determined by (31)P- and (1)H-MRS as the sum of the rates of PCr hydrolysis (delta[PCr]/deltat) and of anaerobic glycolysis (delta[La]/ deltat, based on a approximately P/La ratio of 1.5). The investigated T levels were 15, 20 and 25 degrees C, whereas initial extracellular pH (pHe) values were 7.9, 7.3 and 7.0, i.e. higher, equal or lower, respectively, than intracellular pH (pHi). The latter was changing with T according to the neutrality point (dpH/dT=-0.0165 pH units/ degrees C). Both rates of PCr hydrolysis and of lactate accumulation and that of their sum, expressed as delta approximately P/deltat, were highly T-dependent. By contrast, the pHe-dependence of the muscle energy balance was nil or extremely limited at 15 and 20 degrees C, respectively, but remarkable at 25 degrees C (with a depression of the ATP resynthesis rate up to 25% with a decrease of pHe from 7.9 to 7.0). The pHe-dependent reduction of metabolic rate was associated with a down-regulation of anaerobic glycolysis due to reduced activity of ion-transporters controlling acid-base balance and/or to a shift from Na(+)/H(+) to a more efficient Na(+)-dependent Cl(-)/HCO(3)(-) exchanger. Uncoupling of glycogenolysis from P-metabolite concentrations, both as function of T (>or=20 degrees C) and of pHe (<or=7.3), was also shown, attributable to a T-dependence of glycolytic enzyme activity and/or H(+) ion transport systems. The described metabolic slowdown observed in isolated muscle preparations subjected to the combined regimes of anoxia/acidosis implies that the mechanism determining survival time at the cellular level is mediated by exchange transport systems. A similar mechanism might affect muscle metabolism of homeotherms during chronic hypoxia and/or ischemia.
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- Alessandra Vezzoli
- Istituto di Bioimmagini e Fisiologia Molecolare, CNR, Via Fratelli Cervi, 93, 20090 SEGRATE (Mi), Milan, Italy.
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Piccioni MA, Leirner AA, Auler JO. Comparison of pH-Stat Versus Alpha-Stat During Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass in the Prevention and Control of Acidosis in Cardiac Surgery. Artif Organs 2004; 28:347-52. [PMID: 15084194 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2004.47353.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To compare the effects of blood-gas management using either alpha-stat (temperature-uncorrected blood-gas management) or pH-stat (temperature-corrected blood-gas management) strategies, 30 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery allocated randomly to either one of the approaches were studied. Acid-base balance, tissue oxygenation, and biochemical parameters were measured at distinct times: before bypass, after 15 min of hypothermia at 32 degrees C, after 45 min of hypothermia at 32 degrees C, after 15 min of rewarming at 37 degrees C, and 45 min after the end of bypass in normothermic conditions. RESULTS The groups were similar with regard to physical characteristics, physiological parameters, and bypass time. In the pH-stat group, CO2 administered with the aim of correcting pH for the patients hypothermic temperature caused a significant increase in temperature-uncorrected PaCO2 and a decrease in arterial temperature-uncorrected pH at 45 min. During the rewarming period and following bypass, the pH was lower and PaCO2 higher in the pH-stat group (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION It was found that during the rewarming period and following bypass, the resulting acidosis caused by the procedure was less in the alpha-stat group. It was found that there were no difference between the two groups, with regard to tissue perfusion, as is seen by the tissue oxygenation parameters and lactic acid concentration.
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- Marilde A Piccioni
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Vezzoli A, Gussoni M, Greco F, Zetta L. Effects of temperature and extracellular pH on metabolites: kinetics of anaerobic metabolism in resting muscle by 31P- and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. J Exp Biol 2003; 206:3043-52. [PMID: 12878672 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Environmental stress, such as low temperature, extracellular acidosis and anoxia, is known to play a key role in metabolic regulation. The aim of the present study was to gain insight into the combined temperature-pH regulation of metabolic rate in frog muscle, i.e. an anoxia-tolerant tissue. The rate of exergonic metabolic processes occurring in resting isolated muscles was determined at 15 degrees C and 25 degrees C as well as at extracellular pH values higher (7.9), similar (7.3) and lower (7.0) than the physiological intracellular pH. (31)P and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy high-resolution measurements were carried out at 4.7 T in isolated frog (Rana esculenta) gastrocnemius muscle during anoxia to assess, by means of reference compounds, the concentration of all phosphate metabolites and lactate. Intra- and extracellular pH was also determined. In the range of examined temperatures (15-25 degrees C), the temperature dependence of anaerobic glycolysis was found to be higher than that of PCr depletion (Q(10)=2.3). High-energy phosphate metabolism was confirmed to be the initial and preferential energy source. The rate of phosphocreatine hydrolysis did not appear to be affected by extracellular pH changes. By contrast, independent of the intracellular pH value, at the higher temperature (25 degrees C) a lowering of the extracellular pH from 7.9 to 7.0 caused a depression in lactate accumulation. This mechanism was ascribed to the transmembrane proton concentration gradient. This parameter was demonstrated to regulate glycolysis, probably through a reduced lactate efflux, depending on the activity of the lactate-H(+) co-transporter. The calculated intracellular buffer capacity was related to intra- and extracellular pH and temperature. At the experimental extracellular pH of 7.9 and at a temperature of 15 degrees C and 25 degrees C, calculated intracellular buffering capacity was 29.50 micromol g(-1) pH unit(-1) and 69.98 micromol g(-1) pH unit(-1), respectively.
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Erecinska M, Thoresen M, Silver IA. Effects of hypothermia on energy metabolism in Mammalian central nervous system. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2003; 23:513-30. [PMID: 12771566 DOI: 10.1097/01.wcb.0000066287.21705.21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 297] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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This review analyzes, in some depth, results of studies on the effect of lowered temperatures on cerebral energy metabolism in animals under normal conditions and in some selected pathologic situations. In sedated and paralyzed mammals, acute uncomplicated 0.5- to 3-h hypothermia decreases the global cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (CMR(glc)) and oxygen (CMRo(2)) but maintains a slightly better energy level, which indicates that ATP breakdown is reduced more than its synthesis. Intracellular alkalinization stimulates glycolysis and independently enhances energy generation. Lowering of temperature during hypoxia-ischemia slows the rate of glucose, phosphocreatine, and ATP breakdown and lactate and inorganic phosphate formation, and improves recovery of energetic parameters during reperfusion. Mild hypothermia of 12 to 24-h duration after normothermic hypoxic-ischemic insults seems to prevent or ameliorate secondary failures in energy parameters. The authors conclude that lowered head temperatures help to protect and maintain normal CNS function by preserving brain ATP supply and level. Hypothermia may thus prove a promising avenue in the treatment of stroke and trauma and, in particular, of perinatal brain injury.
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- Maria Erecinska
- Department of Anatomy, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
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Kim WG, Lim C, Moon HJ, Kim YJ. Comparative Analysis of Alpha-stat and pH-stat Strategies with a Membrane Oxygenator During Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest in Young Pigs. Artif Organs 2000. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2000.65543.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Stinner JN, Hartzler LK. Effect of temperature on pH and electrolyte concentration in air-breathing ectotherms. J Exp Biol 2000; 203:2065-74. [PMID: 10851123 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.203.13.2065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aim of this study was to determine the effects of temperature upon pH, protein charge and acid-base-relevant ion exchange in air-breathing ectotherms. Plasma and skeletal muscles in cane toads (Bufo marinus) and bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) were examined at 30, 20 and 10 degrees C. In addition, skeletal muscle ion concentrations were examined in black racer snakes (Coluber constrictor) at 30 and 10 degrees C. Cooling the amphibians produced a reduction in most of the plasma ion concentrations (Na(+), K(+), Ca(2+), Cl(−), SO(4)(2)(−)) and in protein concentration because of increased hydration. Between 30 and 10 degrees C, total plasma osmolality fell by 14 % in the toads and by 5 % in the frogs. Plasma protein charge, calculated using the principle of electroneutrality, was unaffected by temperature, except possibly for the toads at 10 degrees C. The in vivo skeletal muscle capdelta pHi/ capdelta T ratio, where pHi is intracellular pH and T is temperature, between 30 and 20 degrees C averaged −0.014 degrees C(−)(1) in the toads and −0.019 degrees C(−)(1) in the frogs. Between 20 and 10 degrees C, there was no change in pHi in the toads and a −0.005 degrees C(−)(1) change in the frogs. The in vitro skeletal muscle capdelta pHi/ capdelta T averaged −0.011 degrees C(−)(1) in both toads and frogs. In all three species, skeletal muscle inulin space declined with cooling. Intracellular ion concentrations were calculated by subtracting extracellular fluid ion concentrations from whole-muscle ion concentrations. In general, temperature had a large effect upon intracellular ion concentrations (Na(+), K(+), Cl(−)) and intracellular CO(2) levels. The relevance of the changes in intracellular ion concentration to skeletal muscle acid-base status and protein charge and the possible mechanisms producing the adjustments in intracellular ion concentration are discussed. It is concluded that ion-exchange mechanisms make an important contribution to adjusting pH with changes in temperature.
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- J N Stinner
- Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3908, USA.
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The regulation of breathing relies upon chemical feedback concerning the levels of CO2 and O2. The carotid bodies, which detect O2, provide tonic excitation to brainstem respiratory neurons under normal conditions and dramatic excitation if O2 levels fall. Feedback for CO2 involves the carotid body and receptors in the brainstem, central chemoreceptors. Small increases in CO2 produce large increases in breathing. Decreases in CO2 below normal can, in sleep and anesthesia, decrease breathing, even to apnea. Central chemoreceptors, once thought localized to the surface of the ventral medulla, are likely distributed more widely with sites presently identified in the: (1) ventrolateral medulla; (2) nucleus of the solitary tract; (3) ventral respiratory group; (4) locus ceruleus; (5) caudal medullary raphé; and (6) fastigial nucleus of the cerebellum. Why so many chemoreceptor sites? Hypotheses, some with supporting data, include the following. Geographical specificity; all regions of the brainstem with respiratory neurons contain chemoreceptors. Stimulus intensity; some sites operate in the physiological range of CO2 values, others only with more extreme changes. Stimulus specificity; CO2 or pH may be sensed by multiple mechanisms. Temporal specificity; some sites respond more quickly to changes on blood or brain CO2 or pH. Syncytium; chemosensitive neurons may be connected via low resistance, gap junctions. Arousal state: sites may vary in effectiveness and importance dependent on state of arousal. Overall, as judged by experiments of nature, and in the laboratory, central chemoreceptors are critical for adequate breathing in sleep, but other aspects of the control system can maintain breathing in wakefulness.
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- E Nattie
- Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Physiology, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001, USA
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Bonafe CF, Matsukuma AY, Matsuura MS. ATP-induced tetramerization and cooperativity in hemoglobin of lower vertebrates. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:1196-8. [PMID: 9880485 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.3.1196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The importance of intraerythrocytic organic phosphates in the allosteric control of oxygen binding to vertebrate hemoglobin (Hb) is well recognized and is correlated with conformational changes of the tetramer. ATP is a major allosteric effector of snake Hb, since the absence of this nucleotide abolishes the Hb cooperativity. This effect may be related to the molecular weight of about 32,000 for this Hb, which is compatible with the dimeric form. ATP induces a pH-dependent tetramerization of deoxyHb that leads to the recovery of cooperativity. This phenomenon may be partially explained by two amino acid replacements in the beta chains (CD2 Glu-43 --> Thr and G3 Glu-101 --> Val), which result in the loss of two negative charges at the alpha1beta2 interface and favors the dissociation into dimers. The ATP-dependent dimer left arrow over right arrow tetramer may be physiologically important among ancient animal groups that have similar mutations and display variations in blood pH that are governed by these animals' metabolic state. The enormous loss of free energy of association that accompanies Hb oxygenation, and which is also observed at a much lower intensity in higher vertebrate Hbs, must be taken into consideration in allosteric models. We propose that the transition from a myoglobin-like protein to an allosteric one may be of evolutionary significance.
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- C F Bonafe
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Moerland T, Egginton S. Intracellular pH of muscle and temperature: Insight from in vivo 31P NMR measurements in a stenothermal Antarctic teleost (Harpagifer antarcticus). J Therm Biol 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4565(98)00016-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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JERRETT A, HOLLAND A. Rigor Tension Development in Excised "Rested", "Partially Exercised" and "Exhausted" Chinook Salmon White Muscle. J Food Sci 1998. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1998.tb15673.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Vezzoli A, Gussoni M, Greco F, Zetta L, Cerretelli P. Quantitative analysis of anaerobic metabolism in resting anoxic muscle by 31P and 1H MRS. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1322:195-207. [PMID: 9452766 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(97)00070-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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31P and 1H MRS high resolution measurements at 4.7 T were carried out in isolated frog (Rana esculenta) gastrocnemius muscle during anoxia to assess, using reference compounds, the concentration of high energy phosphates (approximately P = phosphocreatine (PC) plus adenosinetriphosphate (ATP)), inorganic phosphate (P(i)), phosphomonoesters (PME) and lactate (La): Two sets of measurements were performed, with (p) and without (up) muscle IAA poisoning and the time course of the metabolite concentration changes was described. The rate of phosphocreatine hydrolysis during the first phase of anaerobiosis, when no lactate is accumulated in either case, appears to be greater in p than in up preparations. This finding can be explained with the sizeable accumulation of phosphomonoesters (PME) in the former. The efficiency of anaerobic glycolysis, i.e. the approximately P/La ratio, recalculated taking into account also PME changes, was found to be 1.48 +/- 0.28, a value higher than that obtained by previous chemical measurements and close to the maximum stoichiometric approximately P/La value. Hence, the in vivo substrate of glycolysis, in the resting anoxic frog gastrocnemius, appears to be almost exclusively glycogen.
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- A Vezzoli
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Milano, Italy
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Kogo N, Ariel M. Membrane properties and monosynaptic retinal excitation of neurons in the turtle accessory optic system. J Neurophysiol 1997; 78:614-27. [PMID: 9307099 DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.2.614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Using an eye-attached isolated brain stem preparation of a turtle, Pseudemys scripta elegans, in conjunction with whole cell patch techniques, we recorded intracellular activity of accessory optic system neurons in the basal optic nucleus (BON). This technique offered long-lasting stable recordings of individual synaptic events. In the reduced preparation (most of the dorsal structures were removed), large spontaneous excitatory synaptic inputs [excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs)] were frequently recorded. Spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic potentials were rarely observed except in few cases. Most EPSPs disappeared after injection of lidocaine into the retina. A few EPSPs of small size remained, suggesting that these EPSPs either were from intracranial sources or may have been miniature spontaneous synaptic potentials from retinal ganglion cell axon terminals. Population EPSPs were synchronously evoked by electrical stimulation of the contralateral optic nerve. Their constant onset latency and their ability to follow short-interval paired stimulation indicated that much of the population EPSP's response was monosynaptic. Visually evoked BON spikes and EPSP inputs to BON showed direction sensitivity when a moving pattern was projected onto the entire contralateral retina. With the use of smaller moving patterns, the receptive field of an individual BON cell was identified. A small spot of light, projected within the receptive field, guided the placement of a bipolar stimulation electrode to activate retinal ganglion cells that provided input to that BON cell. EPSPs evoked by this retinal microstimulation showed features of unitary EPSPs. Those EPSPs had distinct low current thresholds. Recruitment of other inputs was only evident when the stimulation level was increased substantially above threshold. The average size of evoked unitary EPSPs was 7.8 mV, confirming the large size of synaptic inputs of this system relative to nonsynaptic noise. EPSP shape was plotted (rise time vs. amplitude), with the use of either evoked unitary EPSPs or spontaneous EPSPs. Unlike samples of spontaneous EPSPs, data from many unitary EPSPs formed distinct clusters in these scatterplots, indicating that these EPSPs had a unique shape among the whole population of EPSPs. In most BON cells studied, hyperpolarization-activated channels caused a slow depolarization sag that reached a plateau within 0.5-1 s. This property suggests that BON cells may be more complicated than a simple site for convergence of direction-sensitive retinal ganglion cells to form a central retinal slip signal for control of oculomotor reflexes.
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- N Kogo
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Saint Louis University, Missouri 63104, USA
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Zielinski S, Pörtner HO. Energy metabolism and ATP free-energy change of the intertidal wormSipunculus nudus below a critical temperature. J Comp Physiol B 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02338292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Hubley MJ, Locke BR, Moerland TS. The effects of temperature, pH, and magnesium on the diffusion coefficient of ATP in solutions of physiological ionic strength. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1291:115-21. [PMID: 8898871 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(96)00053-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Intracellular diffusive transport of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is critical to cellular metabolism. Physical models predict that diffusion coefficients (D) of small molecules are functions of temperature and viscosity of the diffusive environment. Therefore, changes in body temperature, commonly experienced by poikilotherms, are expected to result in changes in the rate of intracellular ATP transport. However, it has been postulated that changes in the electrical charge of ATP may influence the interaction between ATP and the cytosol and that the temperature sensitivity of DATP may deviate from the predicted relationship. To investigate the effects of changes in electrical charge on the temperature sensitivity of DATP, we measured DATP under various conditions of temperature, pH, and pMg2+. Changes in pH and pMg2+ were used to alter the net charge of ATP, and DATP was measured in solutions of physiological ionic strength. Results showed a positive correlation between DATP and temperature; DATP = 1.75 +/- 0.09, 3.68 +/- 0.14, and 4.64 +/- 0.13 (mean +/- S.E.M.) x 10(-6) cm2/s at 5 degrees C, 25 degrees C, and 40 degrees C, respectively. Changes in pH and pMg2+ did not significantly influence DATP, and the change in DATP with respect to temperature was similar to that predicted on the basis of changes in temperature and viscosity of the aqueous medium.
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- M J Hubley
- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-3050, USA
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JERRETT A, STEVENS J, HOLLAND A. Tensile Properties of White Muscle in Rested and Exhausted Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). J Food Sci 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1996.tb13149.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Maughan DW, Molloy JE, Brotto MA, Godt RE. Approximating the isometric force-calcium relation of intact frog muscle using skinned fibers. Biophys J 1995; 69:1484-90. [PMID: 8534819 PMCID: PMC1236379 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(95)80019-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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In previous papers we used estimates of the composition of frog muscle and calculations involving the likely fixed charge density in myofibrils to propose bathing solutions for skinned fibers, which best mimic the normal intracellular milieu of intact muscle fibers. We tested predictions of this calculation using measurements of the potential across the boundary of skinned frog muscle fibers bathed in this solution. The average potential was -3.1 mV, close to that predicted from a simple Donnan equilibrium. The contribution of ATP hydrolysis to a diffusion potential was probably small because addition of 1 mM vanadate to the solution decreased the fiber actomyosin ATPase rate (measured by high-performance liquid chromatography) by at least 73% but had little effect on the measured potential. Using these solutions, we obtained force-pCa curves from mechanically skinned fibers at three different temperatures, allowing the solution pH to change with temperature in the same fashion as the intracellular pH of intact fibers varies with temperature. The bath concentration of Ca2+ required for half-maximal activation of isometric force was 1.45 microM (22 degrees C, pH 7.18), 2.58 microM (16 degrees C, pH 7.25), and 3.36 microM (5 degrees C, pH 7.59). The [Ca2+] at the threshold of activation at 16 degrees C was approximately 1 microM, in good agreement with estimates of threshold [Ca2+] in intact frog muscle fibers.
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- D W Maughan
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
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Jackson DC, Warburton SJ, Meinertz EA, Lawler RG, Wasser JS. The effect of prolonged anoxia at 3 degrees C on tissue high energy phosphates and phosphodiesters in turtles: a 31P-NMR study. J Comp Physiol B 1995; 165:77-84. [PMID: 7601958 DOI: 10.1007/bf00264689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Selected tissues (skeletal muscle, heart ventrical, and liver), sampled from turtles (Chrysemys picta bellii) at 3 degrees C either under normoxic conditions or after 12 weeks of anoxic submergence were quantitatively analysed for intracellular pH and phosphorus metabolites using 31P-NMR. Plasma was tested for osmolality and for the concentrations of lactate, calcium, and magnesium to confirm anoxic stress. We hypothesized that, in the anoxic animals, tissue ATP levels would be maintained and that the increased osmolality of the body fluids of anoxic turtles would be accounted for by a corresponding increase in the concentrations of phosphodiesters. The responses observed differed among the three tissues. In muscle, ATP was unchanged by anoxia but phosphocreatine was reduced by 80%; in heart, both ATP and phosphocreatine fell by 35-40%. The reduction in phosphocreatine in heart tissue at 3 degrees C was similar to that observed in isolated, perfused working hearts from turtles maintained at 20 degrees C but no decrease in ATP occurred in the latter tissues. In liver, although analyses of several specimens were confounded by line-broadening, neither ATP nor phosphocreatine was detectable in anoxic samples. Phosphosdiesters were detected in amounts sufficient to account for 30% of normoxic cell osmotic concentration in heart and 11% and 12% in liver and muscle, respectively. The phosphodiester levels did not change in anoxia. Heart ventricular phosphodiester levels in turtles at 3 degrees C were significantly higher than those determined for whole hearts from turtles at 20 degrees C.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D C Jackson
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Wasser JS, Jackson DC, Chang SY, Warburton SJ. Maintenance of high extracellular pH does not influence cell pH or metabolism in submerged anoxic bullfrogs. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1993; 265:619-26. [PMID: 8487014 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402650603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We compared extracellular and intracellular acid-base states in paralyzed bullfrogs subjected to 4 h of anoxic submergence at 15 degrees C with or without maintenance of extracellular pH at preanoxic levels by bicarbonate infusion. We also assessed anaerobic metabolism under these conditions by measuring tissue lactate and glycogen concentrations in liver, heart, and skeletal muscle. Although bicarbonate infusion resulted in a significantly higher arterial blood pH (pHe) than saline infusion, intracellular pH (pHi) of heart and skeletal muscle, as determined by the DMO equilibration technique, were not significantly different after 4 h of anoxia. We were also unable to demonstrate any differences in anaerobic metabolic rate, since both tissue lactate accumulation and glycogen depletion were identical in bicarbonate- and saline-infused frogs in the tissues studied. We conclude that (1) alterations in the extracellular acid-base state by bicarbonate infusion are not necessarily reflected in the intracellular compartment, perhaps due to powerful intracellular buffering processes, and (2) maintenance of an alkaline extracellular pH during anoxia in bullfrogs does not influence the anaerobic metabolic rate. We could not, however, rule out a possible role for intracellular pH in regulating anaerobic metabolism during anoxia in frogs.
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- J S Wasser
- Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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Hazel JR, McKinley SJ, Williams EE. Thermal adaptation in biological membranes: interacting effects of temperature and pH. J Comp Physiol B 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00296639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Wasser JS, Warburton SJ, Jackson DC. Extracellular and intracellular acid-base effects of submergence anoxia and nitrogen breathing in turtles. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 1991; 83:239-52. [PMID: 2068419 DOI: 10.1016/0034-5687(91)90032-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We compared extracellular and intracellular acid-base state in turtles (Chrysemys picta bellii) subjected to anoxic submergence to turtles made anoxic by N2-breathing. Measurements made on control animals and on animals after 1, 2, 4, or 6 h of anoxia included blood pH, PO2, PCO2, and lactate as well as liver, heart, skeletal muscle, and brain pHi (using DMO equilibration), lactate, and glycogen concentrations. We hypothesized that the anaerobic metabolic rate of submerged turtles would be depressed by the more severe extra- and intracellular acidosis, and that this would be indicated by reduced lactate accumulation and glycogen depletion. Submerged turtles became extremely acidemic due to a combined metabolic and respiratory acidosis and had significantly lower arterial pH than N2-breathing animals (6.98 and 7.34, respectively, after 6 h). In spite of this disparity in pHa, 6 h pHi values for liver, heart, and brain were similar. Likewise, our data on glycogen depletion and lactate accumulation at h 6 in these tissues suggest no dramatic differences in anaerobic metabolic rate. While skeletal muscle pHi was somewhat lower at h 6 in the submerged group (6.73 vs 6.91 for N2-breathers), we observed no differences in either glycogen depletion or lactate accumulation in this tissue between our two treatments. Thus, at h 6, in spite of a 0.37 pH unit difference in pHa and a nearly 70 mm Hg difference in arterial and presumably cytosolic PCO2, pHi and tissue lactate and glycogen concentrations were similar. These results can be explained if the in vivo intracellular buffer values (beta) of turtle tissues are very high. We conclude that extracellular acid-base state is not necessarily reflected intracellularly in vivo in turtles and care must be taken in extrapolating from one compartment to another when attempting to make inferences about metabolic depression or acid-base regulation in this species.
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- J S Wasser
- Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
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Skeletal muscle pH dynamics during arousal from hibernation measured by31P NMR spectroscopy. J Comp Physiol B 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01075664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Stoney SD. Limitations on impulse conduction at the branch point of afferent axons in frog dorsal root ganglion. Exp Brain Res 1990; 80:512-24. [PMID: 2387351 DOI: 10.1007/bf00227992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Impulse conduction at the branch point of afferent axons in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) has been studied using intracellular recording from frog DRG neurons in vitro. The least conduction interval (LCI, the minimum inter-response interval) was determined for pairs of impulses to successfully propagate through the branch point into the dorsal root. At 21 degrees-23 degrees C, average branch point LCI was significantly longer than for afferent fibers in the peripheral nerve. This result suggested that the branch point would limit the maximum frequency of action potentials that could conduct into the dorsal root. This was found to be the case. The maximum frequency of impulses in short trains (less than or equal to 40 ms) which could conduct into the dorsal root without failure (363 Hz) was accurately predicted by branch point LCI and was far less than the maximum frequency predicted from the LCI of axons in the peripheral nerve (610 Hz). Branch point LCI was correlated (r = -0.78) with the natural log of peripheral axon conduction velocity (CV). However, the relationship of LCI and CV was different for different types of neurons and the shape of the somatic action potential was found to be a reliable predictor of branch point LCI. Neurons with long-duration somatic action potentials with a shoulder on the falling phase tended to have low CV and invariably had long LCI's. Neurons with brief, smooth action potentials had short LCI's regardless of CV. These cells, which appear to be the most differentiated type, have found a way to minimize branch point LCI which is virtually independent of their axonal CV. For the latter neurons, branch point LCI was correlated (r = 0.42) with the reciprocal of the hyperpolarization level, at the cell body, required to block conduction through the branch point, suggesting that the proximity of the cell body to the branch point might play a role in determining the LCI of some neurons. Over a range of 12 degrees C to around 35 degrees C, branch point LCI was inversely related and maximum firing frequency directly related to temperature. At high temperatures (30 degrees-40 degrees C) conduction failure occurred at sites having particularly long LCI's. It is concluded that a) these axon branch points act as low-pass filters and set the maximum frequency of conducted impulses that can access the central nervous system; b) certain varieties of DRG neurons exhibit more branch point filtering action than others; and c) warming, within limits, reduces branch point filtering action.
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- S D Stoney
- Department of Physiology and Endocrinology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-3385
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Delaney KA, Howland MA, Vassallo S, Goldfrank LR. Assessment of acid-base disturbances in hypothermia and their physiologic consequences. Ann Emerg Med 1989; 18:72-82. [PMID: 2642674 DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(89)80319-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- K A Delaney
- Emergency Department, Bellevue Hospital/New York University Medical Center, New York 10016
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Perry SF, Walsh PJ, Mommsen TP, Moon TW. Metabolic consequences of hypercapnia in the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri: beta-adrenergic effects. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1988; 69:439-47. [PMID: 2834262 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(88)90036-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The metabolic consequences of external hypercapnia (1% CO2) were assessed in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) in the presence or absence of circulating levels of the beta adrenoceptor antagonist, propranolol. External hypercapnia caused a severe extracellular respiratory acidosis and a less pronounced reduction of hepatic intracellular pH (pHi). pHi was restored to prehypercapnic values after 48 hr of continuous hypercapnia due to elevation of bicarbonate levels. In the presence of propranolol, hypercapnia elicited a pronounced activation of pyruvate kinase (PyK) (measured at both low and high phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) concentrations) and inactivation of both total glycogen phosphorylase (GPase) and glycogen phosphorylase a (GPase a). In the absence of propranolol, the changes in enzyme activities were significantly reduced (low PEP PyK activity) or totally absent (GPase inactivation). These results suggest that beta adrenoceptor-mediated phenomena offset disruptive effects of hypercapnia on PyK and GPase activities and may be important in the control of gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis during this acid-base disturbance. The adrenergic effects were not related to modification of hepatic intracellular acid-base status. Hypercapnia induced a rapid depletion of liver glycogen and concomitant hyperglycemia. These effects were not prevented by pretreating fish with propranolol and appeared to be unrelated to changes in GPase a activity. These results suggest that factors other than adrenergic activation of GPase a are involved in the enhancement of liver glycogenolysis.
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- S F Perry
- Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Wray S. Smooth muscle intracellular pH: measurement, regulation, and function. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1988; 254:C213-25. [PMID: 3279796 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1988.254.2.c213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Smooth muscle performs many functions that are essential for the normal working of the human body. Changes in pH are thought to affect many aspects of smooth muscle. Despite this, until recently little was known about either intracellular pH (pHi) values or pHi regulation in smooth muscle. Recent work measuring pHi with either microelectrodes or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is now providing some of this much needed information for smooth muscles. From these studies, it can be concluded tentatively that pHi is the same in different smooth muscles, approximately 7.06 (37 degrees C). This value is very close to those obtained in cardiac and skeletal muscle. It is clear that H+ is not in equilibrium across the smooth muscle membrane; i.e., pHi is regulated. Preliminary results in smooth muscle suggest that certain aspects of this regulation are different from that described for other muscle types. Changes in pHi have been found to produce marked effects on contraction in smooth muscle. Of particular interest is the fact that, unlike striated muscles, some smooth muscles can product more force during an intracellular acidification.
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- S Wray
- Physiology Department, University College London United Kingdom
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Nattie EE. Gas Exchange in Acid‐Base Disturbances. Compr Physiol 1987. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.cp030420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Nosek TM, Fender KY, Godt RE. It is diprotonated inorganic phosphate that depresses force in skinned skeletal muscle fibers. Science 1987; 236:191-3. [PMID: 3563496 DOI: 10.1126/science.3563496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The increases in the intracellular concentrations of inorganic phosphate and hydrogen ion accompanying fatigue of skeletal muscle appear to be the most important metabolic changes associated with the decrease in contractile force. Experiments on chemically skinned single fibers from rabbit psoas muscle with pH ranging between 6 and 7.25 demonstrate that the depression of maximal calcium-activated force by inorganic phosphate correlates nicely with the concentration of the acidic (diprotonated) species. Therefore, in addition to the well-known depressant effect on the contractile machinery of lowering pH per se, any decrease of intracellular pH associated with fatigue further depresses force production by converting more of the total inorganic phosphate within the cell to the inhibitory diprotonated form.
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Funk GD, Milsom WK. Changes in ventilation and breathing pattern produced by changing body temperature and inspired CO2 concentration in turtles. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 1987; 67:37-51. [PMID: 3103185 DOI: 10.1016/0034-5687(87)90005-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Respiratory minute ventilation (VE), breathing pattern, oxygen consumption (VO2) and arterial blood gases and pH were measured in freshwater turtles (Chrysemys picta) at 10, 20 and 30 degrees C while the animals breathed gases of varying CO2 concentration (FICO2 = 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8%). Increasing body temperature produced unequal increases in VE and VO2 such that VE/VO2 decreased. This relative hypoventilation led to a rise in PaCO2 and fall in pHa. Increasing FICO2 at all temperatures greatly elevated VE. The magnitude of this response increased with increasing temperature. Thus, paradoxically, there was an increase in both PaCO2 and CO2 sensitivity with increasing temperature. Increases in VE due to increases in temperature were primarily due to a shortening of the periods of breath holding. Although changes in VT contributed to changes in VE with increasing FICO2, the changes in f, due to shortening the periods of breath holding, contributed twice as much. In relative terms, increasing temperature had no effect on the CO2 response of any respiratory variable. Analysis of the data indicates that all changes which occurred in VE, PaCO2 and pHa with changes in body temperature can be explained by equal Q10 effects of roughly two on both metabolic rate and ventilatory sensitivity to changes in PaCO2.
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Doumen C, D'Suze G, Verheyen E, Blust R. Temperature and pH effects on the total white muscle LDH of Oreochromis niloticus (Pisces: Cichlidae). COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1986; 83:441-4. [PMID: 3956161 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(86)90393-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The total lactate dehydrogenase enzyme activity of white muscle from O. niloticus shows positive thermal modulation. There is a tendency towards conservation of binding capacity for substrate at physiologically changing pH conditions. Inhibition by excess pyruvate is influenced by temperature and pH, but this phenomenon is not considered to be important in anaerobic glycolysis.
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Milligan CL, Farrell TP. Extracellular and intracellular acid-base status following strenuous activity in the sea raven (Hemitripterus americanus). J Comp Physiol B 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00691045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Weinstein Y, Ackerman RA, White FN. Influence of temperature on the CO2 dissociation curve of the turtle Pseudemys scripta. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 1986; 63:53-63. [PMID: 3081981 DOI: 10.1016/0034-5687(86)90030-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Carbon dioxide dissociation curves were constructed for blood of Pseudemys scripta. These were shifted by temperature and CCO2 was inverse to temperature at common PCO2. CO2 capacitance coefficients for oxygenated and deoxygenated blood (beta oxy, beta deoxy) were inverse to temperature at reported in vivo arterial PCO2's as was the Haldane effect. Data for in vivo PCO2 and Hb saturation of pulmonary arterial and venous blood allowed determination of effective beta which closely reflected values of beta oxy and beta deoxy at different temperatures. This indicates an influence of curve shape on beta eff at in vivo PCO2's. A high degree of correlation was found between air convection requirement (liters of gas ventilated per mmol CO2 produced) and beta eff at different temperatures. The inverse relationship between beta eff and temperature strongly influenced perfusive conductance of CO2 (Gperf = Vb X beta) and contributes to the temperature-independent stability of ventilatory to perfusive conductance ratio and the CO2 content of the animal. The influence of variable curve shape and Haldane effects must be considered as determinants of beta eff in the quantitative assessment of CO2 transport in this species.
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The isozymes of glucose-phosphate isomerase (GPI-A2 and GPI-B2) from the teleost fish Fundulus heteroclitus (L.). J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38609-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Walsh PJ, Moon TW, Mommsen TP. Interactive Effects of Acute Changes in Temperature and pH on Metabolism in Hepatocytes from the Sea Raven Hemitripterus americanus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1086/physzool.58.6.30156076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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