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The isolated Langendorff heart was used to evaluate dityrosine as a marker of acute myocardial infarctions. The animal model allowed the generation of local infarctions with defined survival times, as well as infarctions with and without reperfusion. The results showed that dityrosine, at least under the conditions of the animal model, occurs very shortly after early ischemia and infarctions, since positive staining results were already obtained after a survival time of only 5 min. Furthermore, it could be proved that the occurrence of dityrosine does not depend on a reperfusion of the ischemic muscle area and that there are no differences in the staining patterns of infarctions with and without reperfusion. Positive staining results for dityrosine in control hearts without infarctions had to be considered when evaluating the tissue samples of the study hearts. In part, the positive staining results of the control hearts seemed to be an artefact of the Langendorff system, easily identifiable by a distinctive staining pattern. Positive staining results in tissue samples of hearts that suffered from arrhythmia on the other hand implied that the occurrence of dityrosine is not specific for myocardial infarctions. Taking into account the results of previous works on human tissue samples, however, these findings did not question the use of dityrosine as a diagnostic tool; they simply showed that myocardial damage due to oxidative stress might occur under various pathologic conditions.
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Mayer, F., Falk, M., Huhn, R. et al. Dityrosine as a marker of acute myocardial infarction? Experiments with the isolated Langendorff heart. Int J Legal Med 130, 1053–1060 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-016-1376-6
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