Sarcolemmal Sodium Permeability and Contractile Force of Guinea Pig Papillary Muscle: Effects of Germitrine
Sarcolemmal Sodium Permeability and Contractile Force of Guinea Pig Papillary Muscle: Effects of Germitrine
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豚鼠乳头肌肌膜钠渗透性和收缩力:Germitrine 的影响
DOI:
10.1161/01.res.40.1.90
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
M. Reiter
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作者:
P. Honerjager;M. Reiter
SUMMARY The action potential of guinea pig papillary muscle exposed to the ceveratrum alkaloid germitrine (2 μM) is followed by a long-lasting after-depolarization (maximal amplitude, 8 mV; half-time of decay, 32 seconds; total duration, ˜75 seconds). This after-depolarization interrupts the terminal phase of repolariza-tion. During repetitive stimulation (0.1-1.0 Hz; 80 nM germitrine) the after-depolarizations that follow consecutive action potentials are summed, causing persistent depolarization of up to 10 mV. The after-depolarization is reversibly abolished by tetro-dotoxin (TTX). Test contractions evoked at various times during or after the germitrine-induced after-depolarization reveal a phase during which the ability of the muscle to develop force is transiently increased. This positive inotropic influence reaches its maximum 1 minute after the conditioning stimulus and thereafter decays with a half-time 4.8 times longer than the half-time of decay of the after-depolarization. It is reversibly abolished by TTX and augmented by dihydro-ouabain (DHO). We conclude: Germitrine induces an after-depolarization by prolonging dramatically the Na permeability component which is mediated by the fast Na channels and normally restricted to the first few milliseconds of the action potential. The germitrine-induced selective and persistent increase of sarcolemmal sodium permeability (PNa) causes a positive inotropic effect, probably because intracellularly accumulating Na ions exchange for extracellular Ca ions.