Depressed ryanodine receptor activity increases variability and duration of the systolic Ca2+ transient in rat ventricular myocytes
Depressed ryanodine receptor activity increases variability and duration of the systolic Ca2+ transient in rat ventricular myocytes
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DOI:
10.1161/01.res.0000035527.53514.c2
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发表时间:
2002-10-04
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
O'Neill, SC
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作者:
Díaz, ME;Eisner, DA;O'Neill, SC
Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ release, through the ryanodine receptor (RyR), is essential for the systolic Ca2+ transient and thus the cardiac contractile function. The aim of this study was to examine the effects on the spatial organization of the systolic Ca2+ transient of depressing RyR open probability (P.) with tetracaine or intracellular acidification. Voltage-clamped, fluo-3-loaded myocytes were studied using confocal microscopy. Depressing RyR P-o increased the variability of the Ca2+ transient amplitude between different regions of the cell. This variability often produced alternans with a region producing large and small transients alternately. In addition, the raising phase of the Ca2+ transient became biphasic. The initial phase was constant but the second was variable and propagated as a wave through part of the cell. That both phases involved SR Ca2+ release was shown by their reduction by caffeine. Regional [Ca2+](i) alternans was accompanied by a much smaller degree of alternans at the whole cell level. We suggest that, in tetracaine or acidosis, the initial phase of the Ca2+ transient results from Ca2+ release via RyRs directly activated by adjacent L-type Ca2+ channels. At some sites, this will activate neighboring RyRs and a Ca2+ wave will propagate via activation of other RyRs. This work is the first demonstration that decreased RyR P. alone can produce disarray of the Ca2+ release process and initiate alternans.