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Circulation, Vol 76, 191-200, Copyright © 1987 by American Heart Association

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Preferential increase in subendocardial perfusion produced by endothelium-dependent vasodilators

LR Pelc, GJ Gross and DC Warltier

The transmural distribution of myocardial blood flow across the left ventricles of anesthetized dogs was measured with radioactive microspheres during intracoronary infusion of the endothelium-dependent vasodilators acetylcholine (10 micrograms/min), adenosine triphosphate (ATP; 20 micrograms/min), and arachidonic acid (600 micrograms/min) and the endothelium-independent vasodilator nifedipine (5 micrograms/min). These compounds were administered before and after a 30 min intracoronary infusion of the phospholipase A2 inhibitor quinacrine (300 micrograms/min). Acetylcholine, ATP, and arachidonic acid produced significant (p less than .05) increases in transmural blood flow and in the ratio of subendocardial to subepicardial blood flow (endo/epi) when compared with control. Infusion of quinacrine did not affect this ratio and did not block the increase in transmural blood flow produced by each agent; however, it did block the redistribution of flow to the subendocardium. In contrast, there was no change in endo/epi during intracoronary infusion of nifedipine before and after quinacrine. These results suggest that endothelium-dependent vasodilators produce a preferential increase in subendocardial perfusion via a product of unsaturated fatty acid metabolism.

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