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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 31, 533-536, Copyright © 1985 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Appearance of a cathodic band in the electrophoretogram of blood creatine kinase isoenzyme-MM fraction during hypoxia in rats

T Hayashi and T Tanaka

In electrophoretograms of creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.7.3.2) in patients' blood, a band, presumably of mitochondrial origin, is occasionally observed on the cathodic side of the CK-MM fraction. We studied the implications of this phenomenon in rats exposed to hypoxic conditions. In the hypoxic cardiac muscle, the proportions of CK-MB and CK-MM were not significantly different from controls, but that of the mitochondrial CK was lower. In the corresponding blood, the cathodic mitochondrial CK band appeared, but disappeared as the animals recovered from hypoxia. The CK-MB isoenzyme was increased in the blood of the control rats, as obtained by heart puncture, but no mitochondrial fraction was detected. We believe that changes in myocardial mitochondria during hypoxia are related to the appearance of the cathodic band. Cytoplasmic CK-MB, unlike mitochondrial CK, markedly increased in the rats' blood during the recovery stage rather than during the hypoxia.




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