No Hemoglobin but NO: the icefish(Chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm.
The role of nitric oxide (NO) in cardio-vascular homeostasis is now known to include allosteric redox modulation of cell respiration. An interesting animal for the study of this wide-ranging influence of NO is the cold-adapted Antarctic icefish Chionodraco hamatus, which is characterised by evolutio...
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ftuniperugiairis:oai:research.unipg.it:11391/164752 2024-02-04T09:55:49+01:00 No Hemoglobin but NO: the icefish(Chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm. Pellegrino D. Tota B. PALMERINI, Carlo Alberto Pellegrino, D. Palmerini, Carlo Alberto Tota, B. 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/11391/164752 eng eng volume:207 firstpage:3855 lastpage:3864 journal:JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY http://hdl.handle.net/11391/164752 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-10444289869 Nitric oxide icefish hemoglobin info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2004 ftuniperugiairis 2024-01-10T17:38:57Z The role of nitric oxide (NO) in cardio-vascular homeostasis is now known to include allosteric redox modulation of cell respiration. An interesting animal for the study of this wide-ranging influence of NO is the cold-adapted Antarctic icefish Chionodraco hamatus, which is characterised by evolutionary loss of hemoglobin and multiple cardio-circulatory and subcellular compensations for efficient oxygen delivery. Using an isolated, perfused working heart preparation of C. hamatus, we show that both endogenous (L-arginine) and exogenous (SIN-1 in presence of SOD) NO-donors as well as the guanylate cyclase (GC) donor 8Br-cGMP elicit positive inotropism, while both nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and sGC inhibitors, i.e. L-NIO and ODQ, respectively, induce significant negative inotropic effects. These results therefore demonstrate that under basal working conditions the icefish heart is under the tonic influence of a NO-cGMP-mediated positive inotropism. We also show that the working heart, which has intracardiac NOS (shown by NADPH-diaphorase activity and immunolocalization), can produce and release NO, as measured by nitrite appearance in the cardiac effluent. These results indicate the presence of a functional NOS system in the icefish heart, possibly serving a paracrine/autocrine regulatory role. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Icefish IRIS Università degli Studi di Perugia Antarctic |
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The role of nitric oxide (NO) in cardio-vascular homeostasis is now known to include allosteric redox modulation of cell respiration. An interesting animal for the study of this wide-ranging influence of NO is the cold-adapted Antarctic icefish Chionodraco hamatus, which is characterised by evolutionary loss of hemoglobin and multiple cardio-circulatory and subcellular compensations for efficient oxygen delivery. Using an isolated, perfused working heart preparation of C. hamatus, we show that both endogenous (L-arginine) and exogenous (SIN-1 in presence of SOD) NO-donors as well as the guanylate cyclase (GC) donor 8Br-cGMP elicit positive inotropism, while both nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and sGC inhibitors, i.e. L-NIO and ODQ, respectively, induce significant negative inotropic effects. These results therefore demonstrate that under basal working conditions the icefish heart is under the tonic influence of a NO-cGMP-mediated positive inotropism. We also show that the working heart, which has intracardiac NOS (shown by NADPH-diaphorase activity and immunolocalization), can produce and release NO, as measured by nitrite appearance in the cardiac effluent. These results indicate the presence of a functional NOS system in the icefish heart, possibly serving a paracrine/autocrine regulatory role. |
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Pellegrino D. Tota B. PALMERINI, Carlo Alberto |
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No Hemoglobin but NO: the icefish(Chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm. |
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No Hemoglobin but NO: the icefish(Chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm. |
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No Hemoglobin but NO: the icefish(Chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm. |
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No Hemoglobin but NO: the icefish(Chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm. |
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No Hemoglobin but NO: the icefish(Chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm. |
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no hemoglobin but no: the icefish(chionodraco hamatus)heart as a paradigm. |
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