Extracellular divalent cations block a cation non-selective conductance unrelated to calcium channels in rat cardiac muscle
Extracellular divalent cations block a cation non-selective conductance unrelated to calcium channels in rat cardiac muscle
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.235bk.x
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发表时间:
1997-07-15
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Flameng, W
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作者:
Mubagwa, K;Stengl, M;Flameng, W
1. The effect of removing extracellular divalent cations on resting potential (V-rest) and background conductance of rat cardiac muscle was studied. V-rest was measured with 3 M KCl-filled microelectrodes in papillary muscles, or with a patch electrode in ventricular myocytes. Whole-cell membrane currents were measured in myocytes using step or ramp voltage commands.2. In both muscles and single cells, decrease or removal of Ca-0(2+) and Mg-0(2+) caused a nifedipine-resistant depolarization, which was reversed upon readmission of Ca-0(2+) or Mg-0(2+) (half-maximal effect at 0.8 mM Ca-0(2+) or 3 mM Mg-0(2+) in muscles).3. In single myocytes, removal of Ca-0(2+) and Mg-0(2+) had no effect on the seal resistance in nonruptured cell-attached recordings, but reversibly induced a current with a reversal potential (V-rev) of -8+/-3.4 mV (with internal Cs+; mean+/-S.E.M., n=23) during whole-cell recordings. The current was insensitive to nifedipine (3-100 mu m) or amiloride (I mm). V-rev was insensitive to changes in the equilibrium potential for chloride ions (E-Cl).4. The current induced in the absence of extracellular divalent cations was blocked in a concentration-dependent manner by Ca-0(2+). (At -80 mV, the affinity constant K-Ca was 60 mu M with a Hill coefficient of 0.9.) K-Ca was voltage dependent at positive but not negative potentials. Mg-0(2+), Ni-0(2+), Sr-0(2+), Ba-0(2+), Cd-0(2+) and Gd-0(3+) also blocked the current.5. In 0 mM Na+ (145 mM NMDG(+)), the inward component of the divalent cation-sensitive current was decreased and V-rev shifted to more negative potentials.6. These results suggest that a novel conductance pathway, permeable to monovalent cations but not to Cl- and blocked by divalent cations, exists in ventricular myocytes.