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. 2024 Feb;119(1):133-150.
doi: 10.1007/s00395-023-01020-2. Epub 2023 Dec 26.

Stimulating cardiac glucose oxidation lessens the severity of heart failure in aged female mice

Qiuyu Sun  1   2   3 , Cory S Wagg  1   2   3 , Berna Güven  1   2   3 , Kaleigh Wei  1   2   3 , Amanda A de Oliveira  4   2 , Heidi Silver  1   2   3 , Liyan Zhang  1   2   3 , Ander Vergara  4   2 , Brandon Chen  1   2   3 , Nathan Wong  1   2   3 , Faqi Wang  4   2 , Jason R B Dyck  1   2   3 , Gavin Y Oudit  4   2 , Gary D Lopaschuk  5   6   7
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Stimulating cardiac glucose oxidation lessens the severity of heart failure in aged female mice

Qiuyu Sun et al. Basic Res Cardiol. 2024 Feb.

Abstract

Heart failure is a prevalent disease worldwide. While it is well accepted that heart failure involves changes in myocardial energetics, what alterations that occur in fatty acid oxidation and glucose oxidation in the failing heart remains controversial. The goal of the study are to define the energy metabolic profile in heart failure induced by obesity and hypertension in aged female mice, and to attempt to lessen the severity of heart failure by stimulating myocardial glucose oxidation. 13-Month-old C57BL/6 female mice were subjected to 10 weeks of a 60% high-fat diet (HFD) with 0.5 g/L of Nω-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) administered via drinking water to induce obesity and hypertension. Isolated working hearts were perfused with radiolabeled energy substrates to directly measure rates of myocardial glucose oxidation and fatty acid oxidation. Additionally, a series of mice subjected to the obesity and hypertension protocol were treated with a pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase inhibitor (PDKi) to stimulate cardiac glucose oxidation. Aged female mice subjected to the obesity and hypertension protocol had increased body weight, glucose intolerance, elevated blood pressure, cardiac hypertrophy, systolic dysfunction, and decreased survival. While fatty acid oxidation rates were not altered in the failing hearts, insulin-stimulated glucose oxidation rates were markedly impaired. PDKi treatment increased cardiac glucose oxidation in heart failure mice, which was accompanied with improved systolic function and decreased cardiac hypertrophy. The primary energy metabolic change in heart failure induced by obesity and hypertension in aged female mice is a dramatic decrease in glucose oxidation. Stimulating glucose oxidation can lessen the severity of heart failure and exert overall functional benefits.

Keywords: Cardiac energy metabolism; Cardiac glucose oxidation; Glucose oxidation; Heart failure; Pyruvate dehydrogenase; Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase.

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