Delayed rectifier potassium current (IK) in latent atrial pacemaker cells isolated from cat right atrium.
Delayed rectifier potassium current (IK) in latent atrial pacemaker cells isolated from cat right atrium.
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从猫右心房分离的潜伏心房起搏细胞中的延迟整流钾电流 (IK)。
DOI:
10.1007/bf00374791
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发表时间:
1994
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Lipsius,SL
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Zhou,Z;Lipsius,SL
Whole-cell recording techniques were used to study the delayed rectifier K+current (IK) in latent pacemaker cells isolated from cat right atrium, From a holding potential of −40 mV, depolarizing clamp steps elicited L-type Ca2+current followed by an increasing outward current (IK). The time course of tail current amplitudes parallelled that of the time-dependent activation of outward current. Activation ofIKexhibited a sigmoidal time course that was best fit by a power function where the activation variable was raised to the second power. The voltage-dependence ofIKactivation exhibited a sigmoidal relationship between −40 and +30 mV. The half-maximal activation voltage and slope factor were −21.9±1.3 and 13.8±0.9 mV respectively (n=6). The fully activatedI/Vrelationship ofIKwas linear between −100 and −30 mV and inwardly rectified at more positive voltages. FollowingIKactivation, hyperpolarizations more negative than about −50 mV elicited tail currents that consisted of bothIKdeactivation andIfactivation. A subtraction protocol was used to isolateIKtail currents. In 5.4 mM extracellular [K+],IKtail currents exhibited a reversal potential of −78.2±0.3 mV (n=6). The reversal potential ofIKwas linearly related to log extracellular [K] and the slope was 51.5 mV per ten-fold change in extracellular [K]. At −70 mV,IKtail currents decayed as a single exponential function with a time constant of 159±16 ms (n=6). These results indicate that latent atrial pacemakers exhibitIKactivated by depolarization.IKappears to consist of one current component. At voltages compátible with the maximum diastolic potential (−70 mV)IKtail currents are relatively small andIKdecays much more rapidly thanIfactivation. We conclude that in right atrial latent pacemakersIKmay contribute to repolarization of the action potential and the time course of the initial phase of the pacemaker potential.