PMID: 1208987Jan 1, 1975Paper

An improved animal model for studying the effect of drugs on myocardial metabolism during ischemia

Recent Advances in Studies on Cardiac Structure and Metabolism
A H JageneauR S Reneman

Abstract

An improved dog model to study the effect of drugs on myocardial metabolism during ischemia is described. A reproducible degree of ischemia could be obtained by partial occlusion of the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery (LAD), using an inflatable cuff with a micrometer. The possibility of inducing the stenosis twice in the same animal has the advantage that the animal can be used as its own control. The reproducibility of the degree of ischemia was demonstrated by the nonsignificant differences in local venous lactate, inorganic phosphate, and glucose concentrations after the first and second stenosis. The mean pressure difference over the stenosis was used to express the degree of coronary artery narrowing. In this model, one does not have to rely on the collateral circulation in collecting local venous blood. Moreover, it is very likely that this blood is obtained from the most pronounced ischemic area, which was localized with radioactive microspheres. At this degree of stenosis, left ventricular function was not affected too much, as was demonstrated by the slight changes in dP/dt max, and systolic and diastolic aortic pressure after induction of the stenosis. The usefulness of our model to evaluate the...Continue Reading

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