PMID: 2104193Dec 1, 1990Paper

Influence of age on oxidative damage in mitochondria of ischemic and reperfused rat hearts

Cardioscience
C MuscariC M Caldarera

Abstract

Hearts from rats aged 3 months and 24 months respectively were isolated and subjected to a brief ischemia. The extent of myocardial injury, measured by release of creatine phosphokinase into coronary effluents and by developed tension, was greater in the young rats than in the old when compared with their corresponding non-ischemic controls. The amount of peroxidation, measured in the isolated mitochondria using the malondialdehyde method, was also greater in the younger rats. In contrast, when mitochondria from non-ischemic hearts were incubated for 20 minutes in a medium containing FeCl3, NADPH and ADP, known to generate hydroxyl radicals, significant peroxidation (together with a decrease in respiratory control indices) was obtained only from mitochondria isolated from the older rats. If, as the in vitro results suggest, the mitochondria of the old rats are not less sensitive to peroxidative attack, the difference between the effects of ischemia in the two age groups may be due to a lower rate of formation of reactive species of oxygen or to a greater anti-oxidative cytosolic capacity in the hearts of older rats. Alternatively, the overall oxidative stress following ischemia may be due to the effects of different radicals wh...Continue Reading

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