Abstract
Although cytochemical methods exist for measuring dehydrogenases that act on substrates involved in the production of chemical energy from sugars, virtually no methods exist for measuring the dehydrogenases that act on fatty acids. Yet the oxidation of fatty acids accounts for over 60% of the oxidative activity of cardiac muscle. Consequently a new quantitative cytochemical method, based on a new substrate (DL-S-beta-hydroxybutyryl-N-acetyl cysteamine), has been developed for measuring the activity of hydroxy-acyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase, which is the penultimate step of the beta-oxidation of fatty acids to acetyl-coenzyme A that is used in the Krebs' cycle. Menadione or phenazine methosulphate is used as the intermediate hydrogen-acceptor, with neotetrazolium chloride as the final acceptor. The medium contains nitroprusside, ostensibly to react with any cysteamine liberated by hydrolysis of the substrate. As a control, cysteamine is substituted for the substrate. The concentrations of reactants have been optimized for cardiac muscle; the reaction is linear with thickness of the sections and with time of reaction from 15 to 60 min.
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