Linear O2 Use-Pressure-Volume Area Relation from Curved End-Systolic Pressure-Volume Relation of the Blood-Perfused Rat Left Ventricle.
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Physiological Society of Japan in The Japanese Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 48 (3), 197-204
- https://doi.org/10.2170/jjphysiol.48.197
Abstract
We measured rat left ventricular pressure, volume, and oxygen consumption ( = arteriovenous oxygen content differencexcoronary flow) to establish a new evaluation of its mechanoenergetics in the whole heart preparation by using the cross-circulation method. We obtained a curved end-systolic pressure-volume relation in contrast to a linear end-systolic pressure-volume relation in dogs, rabbits, and humans. However, we obtained a linear oxygen consumption per beat (VO2)-systolic pressure-volume area (PVA, a measure of left ventricular total mechanical energy per beat) relation as in other species. Thus PVA can be a good index for assessing rat left ventricular mechanoenergetics. The VO2 intercept and slope of the linear VO2-PVA relation correspond to those in other species. Intracoronary calcium elevated the curved end-systolic pressure-volume relation and significantly increased PVA at 0.15 ml/g of left ventricular end-diastolic volume (PVA0.15) by 50%. Calcium also significantly increased the VO2 intercept of the VO2-PVA relation by 30% without a change in its slope. We conclude that the rat left ventricular end-systolic pressure-volume relation is curved, but the VO2-PVA relation is linear, and that the VO2 intercept is mainly composed of PVA-independent VO2, presumably VO2 for Ca2+ handling in the excitation-contraction coupling and basal metabolism. Therefore we propose PVA at an appropriate left ventricular volume and the VO2 intercept as good rat left ventricular mechanoenergetic indexes despite the nonlinearity of the end-systolic pressure-volume relation.Keywords
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