Intercellular Ca2+ waves in rat heart muscle
Intercellular Ca2+ waves in rat heart muscle
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.669bd.x
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发表时间:
1998-11-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Wier, WG
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作者:
Lamont, C;Luther, PW;Wier, WG
1. Confocal laser scanning microscopy was used to visualize intercellular transmission of Ca2+ waves in intact rat ventricular trabeculae micro-injected with the calcium indicator fluo-3.2. Ca2+ waves usually failed to be transmitted from cell to cell. At identified individual end-to-end cell contacts, successful transmission interspersed with failure, which sometimes occurred despite an apparent small spritz of Ca2+ between cells. The probability of cell to cell transmission (P-tran) was 0.13.3. Ca2+ waves arose preferentially near junctions of connected cells, where connexin-43 was found, but randomly in enzymatically disconnected heart cells.4. beta-Adrenergic stimulation significantly increased P-tran (to 0.22) and heptanol, an uncoupler of gap junction channels, significantly decreased it (to 0.045).5. In regions of high [Ca2+](1) due to damage, wave frequency decreased markedly with each cell-cell junction passed.6. The Ca2+ permeability of cardiac gap junctions may be regulated, and the low ability of cardiac gap junctions to transmit Ca2+ may help control the spread of Ca2+ from damaged regions.