Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8474775 | Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology | 2014 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Here we show that the decrease in cardiomyocyte HIF-signaling in cardiomyocytes immediately after birth acts as a physiological switch driving mitochondrial fusion and increased postnatal mitochondrial biogenesis. We also investigated mechanisms of ATP generation in embryonic cardiac mitochondria. We found that embryonic cardiac cardiomyocytes rely on both glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle to generate ATP, and that the balance between these two metabolic pathways in the heart is controlled around birth by the reduction in HIF signaling. We therefore propose that the increase in ambient oxygen encountered by the neonate at birth acts as a key physiological stimulus to cardiac mitochondrial adaptation.
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Authors
Marianne T. Neary, Keat-Eng Ng, Marthe H.R. Ludtmann, Andrew R. Hall, Izabela Piotrowska, Sang-Bing Ong, Derek J. Hausenloy, Timothy J. Mohun, Andrey Y. Abramov, Ross A. Breckenridge,