Beyond glucose: metabolic substrate provision enhances cardiac energetics, function and stability ex vivo: a simple recipe for healthier hearts?
AIMS In 1932, Hans Krebs and Kurt Henseleit introduced a bicarbonate-based solution for liver perfusion containing only 5.55 mM glucose. This bicarbonate-based Krebs-Henseleit buffer (KHB) has been frequently modified over many years but typically includes only glucose as a substrate, often to hyperglycaemic levels. Ho...