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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 256: R1192-R1199, 1989;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 6 1192-R1199, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Loose-coupled mitochondria in chronic glucagon-treated hyperthermic ducklings

H. Barre, G. Berne, P. Brebion, F. Cohen-Adad and J. L. Rouanet
Laboratoire de Thermoregulation et Metabolisme Energetique, Faculte de Medecine Lyon-Nord, France.

In chronic glucagon-treated ducklings (GT) showing thermogenic and hyperthermic responses without shivering to glucagon test injection and in control ducklings (TN; both aged 44 +/- 1 days and reared at thermoneutrality), subsarcolemmal (S) and intermyofibrillar (I) mitochondria from gastrocnemius muscle and mitochondria from liver were isolated. Respiration and cytochrome oxidase activity were determined in these isolated mitochondria by polarography and creatine kinase activity by spectrophotometry, both at 25 degrees C. In GT ducklings, the powerful thermogenesis observed in vivo after a glucagon test injection may be due to the uncoupling effect of released free fatty acids (FFA) in loose-coupled mitochondria because their respiration increased as a function of FFA concentration, and the loose coupling of these mitochondria was reversed by addition of albumin. In all types of mitochondria from GT ducklings, the increase in respiration because of FFA was about double that in mitochondria from controls. There was no change in creatine kinase activity from liver and I mitochondria, but a 16% decrease in this enzyme activity (expressed per mg mitochondrial protein) from S mitochondria was shown despite a strong increase in cytochrome oxidase activity from liver mitochondria (+114% if expressed per g tissue) and from muscle mitochondria (I, +53 or +48%; S, +41 or +97% if expressed per mg mitochondrial protein or per g tissue, respectively). These results support a coupling defect in liver and skeletal muscle mitochondria from the GT hyperthermic ducklings and an uncoupling reinforcement by FFA.


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