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Effects of Exercise on Kinetics and Distribution of K-43 and Tl-201 in Isolated Myocardium: Concise Communication

Wood Veterans Administration Medical Center, Marquette University, and The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Correspondence: For reprints contact: J. G. Llaurado, Nuclear Medicine Service (115), Wood VAMC, Milwaukee, WI 53193.

ABSTRACT

Kinetics and distribution of K-43 and Tl-201 were studied in isolated myocardial tissue from rats to assess the effects of exercise. The experimental design was as follows. Rats in some groups were forced to swim for 2 hr; immediately after swimming, they were injected with 0.2 mCi of ⁴³KCl or ²⁰¹TlCl; at 0.5 or 3 hr after injection they were killed and a myocardial segment was obtained and subjected to washout with nonradioactive Krebs fluid in a special chamber. The radioactivity remaining in the tissue was recorded continuously for 1 hr. In control groups ("rested") the exercise was omitted. Altogether there were four groups of ten animals each for both K-43 and Tl-201. A three-compartment model (extracellular, main intracellular, and subcellular) was used; transport rate constants and relative compartment sizes were determined. The most striking finding was the unchangeability of K-43 parameters with regard to experimental condition (rest compared with exercise) and sampling time (0.5 compared with 3 hr after radionuclide injection). On the other hand, Tl-201 parameters were modified by exercise and sampling time. Notable differences between K-43 and Tl-201 kinetics were found. The hypothesis that alterations at the cellular level may affect regional myocardial distribution of a radionuclide is discussed.