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Mechanistic Model of Myocardial Energy Metabolism Under Normal and Ischemic Conditions

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A moderate reduction in coronary blood flow results in decreased myocardial oxygen consumption, accelerated glycolysis, decreased pyruvate oxidation, and lactate accumulation. To quantitatively understand cardiac metabolism during ischemia, we have developed a mechanistic, mathematical model based on biochemical mass balances and reaction kinetics in cardiac cells. By numerical solution of model equations, computer simulations showed the dynamic responses in glucose, fatty acid, glucose-6-phosphate, glycogen, triglyceride, pyruvate, lactate, acetyl-CoA, and free-CoA as well as CO2, O2 phosphocreatine/creatine, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (reduced form)/nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (oxidized form) NADH/NAD+, and adenosine diphosphate/adenosine triphosphate (ADP/ATP). When myocardial ischemia was simulated by a 60% reduction in coronary blood flow, the model generated myocardial concentrations, uptakes, and fluxes that were consistent with experimental data from in vivopig studies. After 60 min of ischemia the concentrations of glycogen, phosphocreatine, and ATP were decreased by 60%, 75%, and 50%, respectively. With the onset of ischemia, myocardial lactate concentration increased and the myocardium switched from net consumer to net producer of lactate. Our model predicted a rapid 13-fold increase in NADH/NAD but only a twofold increase in the ratio of acetyl-CoA to free-CoA. These findings are consistent with the concept that pyruvate oxidation is inhibited during ischemia partially by the rise in NADH/NAD+. © 2002 Biomedical Engineering Society.

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    Jennifer E. Salem, Gerald M. Saidel & Marco E. Cabrera

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

    William C. Stanley & Marco E. Cabrera

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

    Marco E. Cabrera

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Salem, J.E., Saidel, G.M., Stanley, W.C. et al. Mechanistic Model of Myocardial Energy Metabolism Under Normal and Ischemic Conditions. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 30, 202–216 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1114/1.1454133

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