2008
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvn282
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Metabolic remodelling of the failing heart: beneficial or detrimental?

Abstract: The failing heart is characterized by alterations in energy metabolism, including mitochondrial dysfunction and a reduction in fatty acid (FA) oxidation rate, which is partially compensated by an increase in glucose utilization. Together, these changes lead to an impaired capacity to convert chemical energy into mechanical work. This has led to the concept that supporting cardiac energy conversion through metabolic interventions provides an important adjuvant therapy for heart failure. The potential success of… Show more

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“…7 Cardiac energy metabolism mainly depends on fatty acids and glucose, and ketone bodies are normally a minor substrate for the intact myocardium. 8 In HF, however, energy metabolism is altered; the failing myocardium exhibits impaired fatty acid and glucose metabolism, resulting in increased transportation of ketone bodies from the liver. 9, 10 Additionally, ketone utilization by skeletal muscle is impaired in patients with HF as a clinical feature of a debilitating systemic condition.…”
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“…7 Cardiac energy metabolism mainly depends on fatty acids and glucose, and ketone bodies are normally a minor substrate for the intact myocardium. 8 In HF, however, energy metabolism is altered; the failing myocardium exhibits impaired fatty acid and glucose metabolism, resulting in increased transportation of ketone bodies from the liver. 9, 10 Additionally, ketone utilization by skeletal muscle is impaired in patients with HF as a clinical feature of a debilitating systemic condition.…”
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“…Studies primarily concerned the FA oxidation pathway and presented the downregulation of genes involved in FA transport and oxidation in pathological hypertrophy, whereas upregulation of several of these genes was observed in adaptive hypertrophy (63). The decreased expression of genes involved in FA oxidation that is observed in pathological hypertrophy is believed to be due to a decline in the activity of peroxisome proliferatoractivated receptor-␣ (PPAR␣), the transcription factor that plays a crucial role in the transcriptional regulation of genes involved in FA metabolism (21,30,52,69). Moreover, expression of PPAR␣ and its downstream targets, i.e., medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase and carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT I), was upregulated after endurance training (52).…”
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“…Conversely, the hypertrophy observed in different pathological settings is accompanied by cardiac dysfunction or increased morbidity (61). The failing heart is characterized by alterations in energy metabolism, including mitochondrial dysfunction and a reduction in the fatty acid (FA) oxidation rate, which is compensated partially by an increase in glucose utilization (52,69).…”
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“…Reduced expression of fatty acid oxidation enzymes has also been observed in failing human hearts (37,41). However, the role of reduction of fatty acid oxidation in the progression of left ventricular (LV) remodeling and heart failure remains controversial (43). Some authors consider reduction of fatty acid oxidation an adaptive response, which may protect the myocardium by potentially favorable effects of stimulation of glucose oxidation in stressed cardiac myocytes (45).…”
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