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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
Patients with muscular dystrophy have abnormal cardiac function and decreased high-energy phosphate metabolism. Here, we have determined whether the 8 month old mdx mouse, an animal model of muscular dystrophy, also has abnormal cardiac function and energetics. In vivo cardiac MRI revealed 33% and 104% larger right ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes, respectively, and 17% lower right ventricular ejection fractions in mdx mice compared with controls. Evidence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction included 18% lower peak filling rates in mdx mouse hearts. Abnormal cardiac function was accompanied by necrosis and lower citrate synthase activity in the mdx mouse heart, suggesting decreased mitochondrial content. Decreased mitochondrial numbers were associated with 38% lower phosphocreatine concentration, 22% lower total creatine, 36% higher cytosolic free ADP concentration and 1.3 kJ/mol lower free-energy available from ATP hydrolysis in whole isolated, perfused mdx mouse hearts than in controls. Transsarcolemmal creatine uptake was 12% lower in mdx mouse hearts. We conclude that the absence of dystrophin in adult mdx mouse heart, as in the heart of human patient, is associated with right ventricular dilatation, left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and abnormal energy metabolism.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1095-8584
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
754-60
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Adenosine Diphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Adenosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Citrate (si)-Synthase, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Energy Metabolism, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Hydrolysis, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Mice, Inbred mdx, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Mitochondria, Heart, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Muscular Dystrophies, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Muscular Dystrophy, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Necrosis, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Phosphocreatine, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Sarcolemma, pubmed-meshheading:18929569-Stroke Volume
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Abnormal cardiac morphology, function and energy metabolism in the dystrophic mdx mouse: an MRI and MRS study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Sherrington Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't