Abstract: | In dogs with acute myocardial ischemia the most complete mobilization of glycogen and the most complete and effective utilization of its breakdown products are observed after preliminary treatment with izatin, and not of -hydroxybutyric acid (GHBA) and gutimin. Izatin potentiates the beneficial effect of GHBA on the energy metabolism of the myocardium.Professorial Surgical Clinic, Department of Experimental Surgery, and Department of Morphology, Central Research Laboratory, I. P. Pavlov First Leningrad Medical Institute, Leningrad. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR F. G. Ublov.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 87, No. 5, pp. 429–432, May, 1979. |