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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 199, Issue 2 485-495, Copyright © 1996 by Company of Biologists

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Adenosine receptor blockade and hypoxia-tolerance in rainbow trout and Pacific hagfish. I. Effects on anaerobic metabolism

N Bernier, J Harris, J Lessard and D Randall

The physiological properties of adenosine may be essential in the control of energy metabolism for the survival of animals exposed to oxygen shortages. Accordingly, we tested the hypothesis that adenosine modulates metabolic regulation in rainbow trout and Pacific hagfish exposed to acute hypoxia. Treatment of hypoxic rainbow trout (PwO2=3.33 or 4.00 kPa) with the adenosine receptor (AR) blocker theophylline was associated with greater increases in plasma [lactate], more rapid and pronounced metabolic acidosis, higher tissue [lactate], and lower heart creatine charge and glycogen content than in the hypoxic controls. The recruitment of anaerobic metabolism in hypoxic trout treated with enprofylline, an AR blocker with very weak affinity, was intermediate to that of the hypoxic theophylline-injected and control groups. In hagfish, plasma [lactate] increased following exposure to a PwO2 of 1.33 kPa but did not increase following exposure to 3.33 kPa and, like plasma acidosis, it was greatest in the animals treated with theophylline. These findings indicate that AR blockade results in a more rapid and pronounced recruitment of anaerobic metabolism following acute hypoxic exposure, and while rainbow trout and Pacific hagfish show marked differences in their responses to hypoxia, adenosine appears to play an important protective role in both species.
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