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Abstract #2649

ENHANCED GLUCOSE OXIDATION HAS NO EFFECT ON HYPERTROPHIC PROGRESSION IN THE ABDOMINAL AORTIC BANDING MODEL OF LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY

Lucia F Giles 1 , Vicky Ball 1 , Carolyn A Carr 1 , Anne-Marie L Seymour 2 , Lydia Le Page 1 , Lucy Ambrose 1 , and Damian J Tyler 1

1 Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

The development of left ventricular hypertrophy is an independent risk factor in the development of heart failure and is underpinned by metabolic remodelling. Reduced coupling between glycolysis and glucose oxidation has been observed with hypertrophic development in the abdominal aortic constriction (AC) rat model. Dichloroacetate (DCA) is a potent activator of pyruvate dehydrogenase enhancing coupling between glycolysis and glucose oxidation. AC rats were treated with DCA following hypertrophic development and cardiac function and metabolism assessed using cine MRI and hyperpolarized [ 13 C]pyruvate. Despite increasing glucose oxidation and altering the myocardial metabolic profile with DCA failed to affect hypertrophic.

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