Pyridine Nucleotide Regulation of Cardiac Intermediary Metabolism
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Abstract
The pyridine nucleotides NAD(+) and NADP(+) play a pivotal role in regulating intermediary metabolism in the heart. The intracellular NAD(+)/NADH ratio controls flux through various dehydrogenase enzymes involved in both anaerobic and aerobic metabolism and also regulates posttranslational protein modification. The intracellular NADP(+)/NADPH ratio controls flux through the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) and the polyol pathway, while also regulating ion channel function and oxidative stress. Not only does the NAD(+)/NADH ratio regulate the rates of ATP production, it can also modify energy substrate preference. For instance, in many forms of heart disease a greater contribution from fatty acids for oxidative energy metabolism increases fatty acid β-oxidation-derived NADH, which can activate pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) kinase isoforms that inhibit PDH and subsequent glucose oxidation. As such, novel therapies that overcome fatty acid β-oxidation-induced inhibition of PDH improve cardiac efficiency and subsequent function during ischemia/reperfusion and in heart failure. Furthermore, recent studies have implicated a pivotal role for increased PPP-derived NADPH in mediating oxidative stress observed in heart failure. In this article, we review the multiple actions of NAD(+)/NADH and NADP(+)/NADPH in regulating intermediary metabolism in the heart. A better understanding of the roles of NAD(+)/NADH and NADP(+)/NADPH in cellular physiology and pathology could potentially be used to exploit pyridine nucleotide modification in the treatment of a number of different forms of heart disease.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".