α-Lipoic acid increases cardiac glucose oxidation independent of AMP-activated protein kinase in isolated working rat hearts

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 436-444

  Onay Besikci, Arzu ^a,b   Wagg, Cory ^b   Lopaschuk, Timothy P ^b   Keung, Wendy ^b   Lopaschuk, Gary D ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AKT; AMP activated protein kinase; Glucose oxidation; Lipotoxicity

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; LACTIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; THIOCTIC ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART WORK; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; GLUCOSE; HEART; HEART RATE; MALE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MYOCARDIUM; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THIOCTIC ACID;

EID: 34548025597     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-007-0661-4     Document Type: Article

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