DEATH IN VENTRICULAR-FIBRILLATION INDUCED BY ISOPROTERENOL IN DOCA-SALT PRETREATED RATS PRECEDED BY CHANGES IN MYOCARDIAL ELECTROLYTES
DEATH IN VENTRICULAR-FIBRILLATION INDUCED BY ISOPROTERENOL IN DOCA-SALT PRETREATED RATS PRECEDED BY CHANGES IN MYOCARDIAL ELECTROLYTES
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DOI:
10.1016/0024-3205(83)90818-4
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
GUIDERI, G
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作者:
GUIDERI, G
Serum and tissue content of Na, K, Mg and Ca was determined in controls and desoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt treated rats to determine whether electrolyte changes preceded the development of isoproterenol-induced death in ventricular fibrillation. Control male Sprague Dawley rats were injected s.c. with saline (group A) or actinomycin D (0.1 mg/kg; group B) once daily for 4 days. Other rats received 20 mg DOCA by implantation, drank normal saline and were injected with saline (group C) or actinomycin D (group D) once daily for 4 days. In the 1st part of the experiment, none of 15 rats from group C died when challenged with isoproterenol (150 .mu.g/kg, s.c.) 6 days later; 13 of 15 rats from group D died within 29.1 .+-. 15.0 min (mean .+-. SD) from isoproterenol injection. Myocardial Na was elevated (48.8 .+-. 3.8 vs. 36.3 .+-. 1.9) and K decreased (60.4 .+-. 3.4 vs. 70.6 .+-. 3.3, meq/kg wet wt, mean .+-. SD) in rats that had succumbed to isoproterenol. In the 2nd part of the experiment serum and tissues were removed from control and DOCA-saline pretreated rats before they died in ventricular fibrillation, 20 min after isoproterenol. DOCA-saline pretreated rats were hypernatremic and hypokalemic and exhibited higher Na and lower K in skeletal muscle than control rats. Isoproterenol elicited hypokalemia in all rats, but it only elevated Na and decreased K content in the myocardium of rats of group D, that were more prone to die in ventricular fibrillation. Myocardial electrolyte changes preceded the onset of ventricular fibrillation and may have been associated with the development of this dysrhythmia.