Confocal imaging was used to study the influence of cytosolic ATP on the properties of spontaneous Ca sparks in permeabilized ventricular myocytes. Cells were perfused with mock intracellular solutions containing fluo 3. Reducing [ATP] to ,0.5 mmol/L decreased the frequency but increased the amplitude of spontaneous Ca sparks. In the presence of 20 mmol/L ATP, the amplitude increased by 48.7610...

It has been suggested that the hyperglucagonemia observed in diabetic animals and man may be due to an impairment of glucose uptake and metabolism by the alpha-cells resulting in a decreased production of ATP. To test this hypothesis glucose, ATP, glucagon, and insulin were measured in pancreatic islets of normal and alloxan or streptozotocin diabetic rats. Two experimental approaches were used...

Phosphate depletion (PD) impairs the phagocytic ability of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL). This derangement has been attributed to the low ATP content of PMNL in PD. The mechanisms responsible for the low ATP content are not well defined. Phosphorus deficiency, per se, and/or other cellular metabolic consequences of PD such as a rise in cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]i) could be responsible. Ind...

Methods 30 patients with severe sepsis or septic shock were studied at ICU admission and after 24 and 48 hours. Immune cells were identified and isolated using an immunomagnetic positive cell isolation procedure (Dynabeads for Human Monocytes, Human B cells, Human CD4 cells, Invitrogen Dynal AS, Oslo, Norway). Enzymatic activity of mitochondrial complexes I, IV, and ATP synthase and ATP content...

Arginyl dipeptides like Arg-Ser, Arg-Ala, and Arg-Gly are salt-taste enhancers can potentially be used to reduce the salt content of food. The l-amino acid ligase RizA from B. subtilis selectively synthesizes arginyl dipeptides. However, industrial application is prevented by high cost cofactor adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Thus, a coupled reaction system was created consisting acetate kinase (...

A patient with symptoms of easy fatigability, postexercise myalgias, and delayed recovery of muscle strength after activity is described. Skeletal muscle from this patient had <1.0% normal myoadenylate deaminase activity and NH(3) was not released from muscle after ischemic exercise. In association with this enzyme deficiency, exercise led to a >90% reduction in muscle content of adenine nucleo...

INTRODUCTION Patients suffering from sepsis are currently classified on a clinical basis (i.e., sepsis, severe sepsis, septic shock); however, this clinical classification may not accurately reflect the overall immune status of an individual patient. Our objective was to describe a cohort of patients with sepsis in terms of their measured immune status. METHODS Fifty-two patients with sepsis ...

The basis for skeletal muscle dysfunction in phosphate-deficient patients and animals is not known, but it is hypothesized that intracellular phosphate deficiency leads to a defect in ATP synthesis. To test this hypothesis, changes in muscle function and nucleotide metabolism were studied in an animal model of hypophosphatemia. Mice were made hypophosphatemic through restriction of dietary phos...