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We described that oxygen deprivation induced in cultures of heart muscle cells, biochemical events similar to those described in ischemic tissue: arachidonic acid liberation, loss of membrane phospholipids and increase in neutral lipids. Since glucocorticoids have been described to inhibit phospholipase activity and to exert beneficial effects during myocardial infarction, we studied in our experimental model the action of dexamethasone on the metabolism of arachidonic acid and on the synthesis of immunoreactive prostaglandins. Our results show that heart muscle cells produce prostaglandin E2 and 6-keto-prostaglandin-F1α. This synthesis, inhibited by dexamethasone (70% inhibition), decreased after oxygen-deprivation (-45%). The effect of oxygen deprivation and dexamethasone (-60%) are not additive. Moreover, steroid treatment failed to counteract the loss of polyunsaturated fatty acids from the phospholipids, the increase in neutral lipids and the liberation of arachidonic acid induced by oxygen deprivation in muscle cells. These results may indicate that the cardiovascular effects of glucosteroids are not the consequence of a direct effect on heart metabolism at cellular level.
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Brussel, E.MV., Freyss-Beguin, M., Homo-Delarche, F., Duval, D. (1989). Effect of glucocorticoids on arachidonic acid metabolism and prostaglandin secretion by cultures of newborn rat heart cells. In: Van Der Vusse, G.J. (eds) Lipid Metabolism in Normoxic and Ischemic Heart. Developments in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1611-4_18
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