Simultaneous optical imaging of membrane potential and intracellular calcium
Simultaneous optical imaging of membrane potential and intracellular calcium
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2005.06.023
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发表时间:
2005-10-01
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1.3
通讯作者:
Fast, VG
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Fast, VG
Imaging of membrane potential (V-m) and intracellular calcium (Ca-i(2+)) is important for studying mechanisms of cardiac excitation, arrhythmias and defibrillation. We have developed an optical technique for simultaneous mapping of V-m and Ca-i(2+) in Cultured cell monolayers using fluorescent V-m- and Ca2+ sensitive dyes. Cultures of neonatal rat myocytes were double-stained with dyes RH-237 (V-m) and an analog of Fluo-3 or Rhod-2 dyes (Ca2+). These dyes have overlapping excitation spectra, allowing simultaneous excitation at the same wavelength range, and separate emission spectra allowing division of the fluorescent light into components sensitive to V-m and Ca-i(2+) which were measured with two 16 x 16 photodiode arrays. It was found that Ca-i(2+) measurements were strongly dependent on the properties of Ca2+-sensitive dyes. Thus, high-affinity Ca2+ dyes such as Fluo-4 and Rhod-2 reported Ca-i(2+) transients approximately twice as long as those reported by low-affinity dyes Fluo-4FF and Rhod-F-F. In addition, dyes with different affinities resulted in different measurements of Ca-i(2+) responses to electrical shocks. When shocks were applied during the early plateau phase of the action potential, low-affinity dyes reported transient Ca-i(2+) decreases at sites of both negative and positive V-m changes. In contrast, high-affinity Ca2+ dyes reported only a negligible change of plateau Ca-i(2+) and a large elevation of diastolic Ca-i(2+) These discrepancies between high- and low-affinity dyes were explained by a model of dye-ion interaction, which indicated that apparently long Ca-i(2+) transients and Ca-i(2+) responses to electrical shocks measured with high-affinity dyes were due to their non-linear response. These results indicate that optical measurements of Ca-i(2+) transient duration and shock-induced Ca-i(2+) changes require the use of low-affinity Ca-i(2+) dyes. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.