Electrophysiology of rabbit ventricular myocytes following sustained rapid ventricular pacing.
Electrophysiology of rabbit ventricular myocytes following sustained rapid ventricular pacing.
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持续快速心室起搏后兔心室肌细胞的电生理学。
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发表时间:
1997
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5
通讯作者:
I. Zucker
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作者:
G. Rozanski;Zhi Xu;Ryan T. Whitney;H. Murakami;I. Zucker
The present study examined changes in electrophysiological properties of ventricular myocytes isolated from rabbit hearts after 2-3 weeks of rapid ventricular pacing. Left ventricular end-diastolic pressure at completion of the pacing period was nearly four-fold greater than in age-matched controls, although there was no significant change in heart weight/body weight ratio. Action potentials recorded in current-clamp mode at low stimulation frequencies were significantly longer in duration and phase 1 diminished in isolated myocytes from paced hearts compared with control. In voltage-clamp experiments. L-type Ca2+ current (ICa) density was not different between groups of myocytes, but the maximum current (at + 10 mV) elicited by 10 microM isoproterenol was approximately 40% less in myocytes from paced hearts. In contrast, maximum ICa elicited by 10 microM forskolin was similar in both groups. The 4-aminopyridine-sensitive transient outward current (Ito) was 65% less (at + 60 mV) in myocytes from paced hearts than from control. However, after approximately 24 h in culture, Ito density in these myocytes returned toward control values. Despite marked reduction in Ito density, the inward rectifier current (IK1) was not different between groups. These data demonstrate that Ito is significantly and reversibly decreased in myocytes from rapidly paced hearts, which may partly account for marked changes in action potential morphology. Although basal ICa was not altered in this group of myocytes compared with control, its modulation by beta-agonists was markedly blunted, probably through a decrease in receptor density or coupling to adenylyl cyclase. These changes in myocyte K+ and Ca2+ channel behavior in paced hearts may relate to impaired contractility and arrhythmogenesis that is characteristic of the intact failing heart.