Reference : Oxygen consumption of equine articular chondrocytes: Influence of applied oxygen tension...
Scientific journals : Article
Life sciences : Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
http://hdl.handle.net/2268/33101
Oxygen consumption of equine articular chondrocytes: Influence of applied oxygen tension and glucose concentration during culture.
English
Schneider, Nicole[Université de Liège - ULg > > Centre de l'oxygène : Recherche et développement (C.O.R.D.) >]
Mouithys-Mickalad, Ange[Université de Liège - ULg > > Centre de l'oxygène : Recherche et développement (C.O.R.D.) >]
Lejeune, Jean-Philippe[Université de Liège - ULg > Département clinique des animaux de compagnie et des équidés > Anesthésiologie gén. et pathologie chirurg. des grds animaux >]
Duyckaerts, Claire[Université de Liège - ULg > > Centre de l'oxygène : Recherche et développement (C.O.R.D.) >]
Sluse, Francis[Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences de la vie > Bioénergétique et physiologie cellulaire >]
Deby-Dupont, Ginette[Université de Liège - ULg > > Centre de l'oxygène : Recherche et développement (C.O.R.D.) >]
Serteyn, Didier[Université de Liège - ULg > Département clinique des animaux de compagnie et des équidés > Anesthésiologie gén. et pathologie chirurg. des grds animaux >]
[en] We investigated the oxygen (O(2)) uptake of equine articular chondrocytes to assess their reactions to anoxia/re-oxygenation. They were cultured under 5% or 21% gas phase O(2) and at glucose concentrations of 0, 1.0 or 4.5g/L in the culture medium (n=3). Afterwards, the O(2) consumption rate of the chondrocytes was monitored (oxymetry) before and after an anoxia period of 25min. The glucose consumption and lactate release were measured at the end of the re-oxygenation period. The chondrocytes showed a minimal O(2) consumption rate, which was hardly changed by anoxia. Independently from the O(2) tension, glucose uptake by the cells was about 30% of the available culture medium glucose, thus higher for cells at 4.5g/L glucose (n=3). Lactate release was also independent from O(2) tension, but lower for cells at 4.5g/L glucose (n=3). Our observations indicated that O(2) consumption by equine chondrocytes was very low despite a functional mitochondrial respiratory chain, and nearly insensitive to anoxia/re-oxygenation. But the chondrocytes metabolism was modified by an excess of O(2) and glucose.