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Ischemic preconditioning does not protect via blockade of electron transport

¹Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and ²Medical Service, Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Submitted 25 August 2006 ; accepted in final form 26 April 2007

Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) before sustained ischemia decreases myocardial infarct size mediated in part via protection of cardiac mitochondria. Reversible blockade of electron transport at complex I immediately before sustained ischemia also preserves mitochondrial respiration and decreases infarct size. We proposed that IPC would attenuate electron transport from complex I as a potential effector mechanism of cardioprotection. Isolated, Langendorff-perfused rat hearts underwent IPC (3 cycles of 5-min 37°C global ischemia and 5-min reperfusion) or were perfused for 40 min without ischemia as controls. Subsarcolemmal (SSM) and interfibrillar (IFM) populations of mitochondria were isolated. IPC did not decrease ADP-stimulated respiration measured in intact mitochondria using substrates that donate reducing equivalents to complex I. Maximally expressed complex I activity measured as rotenone-sensitive NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase in detergent-solubilized mitochondria was also unaffected by IPC. Thus the protection of IPC does not occur as a consequence of a partial decrease in complex I activity leading to a decrease in integrated respiration through complex I. IPC and blockade of electron transport both converge on mitochondria as effectors of cardioprotection; however, each modulates mitochondrial metabolism during ischemia by different mechanisms to achieve cardioprotection.

NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase; oxidative phosphorylation; mitochondria

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