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J Appl Physiol 90: 2453-2459, 2001;
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Vol. 90, Issue 6, 2453-2459, June 2001

Simple freezing apparatus for resolving rapid metabolic events associated with smooth muscle activation

Roberto Maass-Moreno, Theodor Burdyga, Richard W. Mitchell, Chun Y. Seow, Joseph Ragozzino, and Lincoln E. Ford

Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

A method is described for freezing thin strips of smooth muscle by replacing physiological saline in the muscle chamber with cold organic solvent in <100 ms. Calculations suggest that, with a perfectly stirred boundary at the tissue surface, freezing could occur within ~15 ms at the center of a 200-µm-thick piece of tissue by use of acetone coolant at -78.5°C and in approximately half the time with either isopentane at its freezing point (-160°C) or aluminum chilled with liquid nitrogen. Myosin light chain phosphorylation in muscles frozen with cold acetone began to rise ~200 ms earlier than force and increased at a much more rapid rate. The difference in onsets of the two processes reflects the delay in arresting phosphorylation plus two lags associated with force generation, attachment of phosphorylated bridges followed by force generating movements of the attached bridges. The much more rapid rise of phosphorylation, once it began, suggests that most of this delay is due to physiological lags and not to slow arrest of metabolism.

tissue freezing; myosin light chain phosphorylation; myosin light chain kinase; arrest of metabolism


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