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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015

Spectroscopic analysis of myoglobin and cytochrome c dynamics in isolated cardiomyocytes during hypoxia and reoxygenation.

A Almohammedi, S M Kapetanaki, B R Wood, E L Raven, N M Storey, A J Hudson

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  1. Impact of pulse duration on cardiac electroporation: nanosecond pulses enhance cardiomyocyte selectivity and promote a Raman-detected shift towards apoptotic cell death.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025
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6 authors.

A AlmohammediDepartment of Physics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
S M KapetanakiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
B R WoodCentre for Biospectroscopy and School of Chemistry, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
E L RavenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
N M StoreyDepartment of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK ns140@leicester.ac.uk.
A J HudsonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK andrew.hudson@leicester.ac.uk.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Raman microspectroscopy was applied to monitor the intracellular redox state of myoglobin and cytochrome c from isolated adult rat cardiomyocytes during hypoxia and reoxygenation. The nitrite reductase activity of myoglobin leads to the production of nitric oxide in cells under hypoxic conditions, which is linked to the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration. In this work, the subsequent reoxygenation of cells after hypoxia is shown to lead to increased levels of oxygen-bound myoglobin relative to the initial levels observed under normoxic conditions. Increased levels of reduced cytochrome c in ex vivo cells are also observed during hypoxia and reoxygenation by Raman microspectroscopy. The cellular response to reoxygenation differed dramatically depending on the method used in the preceding step to create hypoxic conditions in the cell suspension, where a chemical agent, sodium dithionite, leads to reduction of cytochromes in addition to removal of dissolved oxygen, and bubbling-N2 gas leads to displacement of dissolved oxygen only. These results have an impact on the assessment of experimental simulations of hypoxia in cells. The spectroscopic technique employed in this work will be used in the future as an analytical method to monitor the effects of varying levels of oxygen and nutrients supplied to cardiomyocytes during either the preconditioning of cells or the reperfusion of ischaemic tissue.

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AnimalsCell HypoxiaCytochromes cMaleMyocytes, CardiacMyoglobinNitrite ReductasesOxidation-ReductionOxygenRatsRats, WistarSpectrum Analysis, RamanCytochromes cMyoglobinNitrite ReductasesOxygenbiophotonicscardiomyocytesex vivo biospectroscopyhypoxia and reoxygenationRaman spectroscopy

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PMID25694541
PMCPMC4387523

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