The mechanical and metabolic basis of myocardial blood flow heterogeneity
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Basic Research in Cardiology
- Vol. 96 (6), 582-594
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s003950170010
Abstract
Precise measurements of regional myocardial blood flow heterogeneity had to be developed before one could seek causation for the heterogeneity. Deposition techniques (particles or molecular microspheres) are the most precise, but imaging techniques have begun to provide high enough resolution to allow in vivo studies. Assigning causation has been difficult. There is no apparent association with the regional concentrations of energy-related enzymes or substrates, but these are measures of status, not of metabolism. There is statistical correlation between flow and regional substrate uptake and utilization. Attribution of regional flow variation to vascular anatomy or to vasomotor control appears not to be causative on a long-term basis. The closest relationships appear to be with mechanical function, but one cannot say for sure whether this is related to ATP hydrolysis at the crossbridge or associated metabolic reactions such as calcium uptake by the sarcoplasmic reticulum.Keywords
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