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We have measured, directly and simultaneously, changes in extracellular volume and intra- and extracellular pH during ischemia in the isolated rat heart using 31P NMR spectroscopy. Hearts were perfused with buffer containing 15 mM sodium phenylphosphonate at pH 7.4. Wash in and wash out experiments showed that phenylphosphonate entered only the extracellular (interstitial, vascular and chamber) space of the heart and had no adverse effects on myocardial energetics, contractile function or coronary flow rate. Hearts were subjected to 28 min of total, global ischemia, during which the phenylphosphonate resonance area in the 31P NMR spectra decreased by 83%, indicating that extracellular fluid had moved rapidly from the heart to the bath surrounding the heart, partly as a result of vascular collapse. A separate, morphological study confirmed that 95% of the vasculature had collapsed by 28 min ischemia. Intra- and extracellular pH were determined from the chemical shifts of the P(i) and the phenylphosphonate resonances, respectively. In the pre-ischemic rat heart, intracellular pH was 7.15 +/- 0.03 and extracellular pH was 7.39 +/- 0.03. By 4 min of ischemia, intra- and extracellular pH were the same and decreased concomitantly throughout the remainder of ischemia to final values of 6.09 +/- 0.19 and 6.16 +/- 0.23, respectively. On reperfusion, the extracellular volume and pH returned to pre-ischemic levels within 1 min, but restoration of intracellular pH took > 2.5 min. Thus, a large volume of extracellular fluid moves out of the rat heart to the surrounding bath and the intra- and extracellular pH become the same during total, global ischemia.

Original publication

DOI

10.1002/nbm.1940060407

Type

Journal article

Journal

NMR Biomed

Publication Date

07/1993

Volume

6

Pages

278 - 286

Keywords

Adenosine Triphosphate, Animals, Cardiac Volume, Extracellular Space, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Male, Myocardial Ischemia, Myocardial Reperfusion, Myocardium, Organophosphorus Compounds, Perfusion, Phosphorus, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Sarcolemma