A COMPARISON OF CALCIUM CURRENTS IN RAT AND GUINEA-PIG SINGLE VENTRICULAR CELLS
A COMPARISON OF CALCIUM CURRENTS IN RAT AND GUINEA-PIG SINGLE VENTRICULAR CELLS
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DOI:
10.1161/01.res.54.2.144
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
BROWN, AM
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作者:
JOSEPHSON, IR;SANCHEZCHAPULA, J;BROWN, AM
The slow inward Ca currents were compared in rat and guinea pig heart using enzymatically dissociated, single ventricular cells. A single electrode voltage clamp was used, in which current and voltage were sampled separately using a time-sharing method. Spatial homogeneity of membrane potential during peak slow inward Ca current was assessed by measuring the potential with 2 microelectrodes 50 .mu.m apart; the potentials were within 3 mV of each other. Peak current-voltage relations for slow inward Ca currents were similar for the 2 species, but the individual currents showed a faster time course of inactivation and a slower time course of recovery from inactivation for rat, compared with guinea pig. The K current blockers 4-aminopyridine and tetraethylammonium chloride did not produce significant effects on the net membrane currents recorded at the holding potentials (-50 to -40 mV) used in this study. The underlying mechanism for the inactivation of the slow inward Ca currents was explored using a double pulse procedure. In both rat and guinea pig heart cells prepulses to was explosred using a double pulse procedure. In both rat and guinea pig heart cells prepulses to very positive potentials were associated with a partial restoration of the slow inward Ca current in the following test pulse. In addition, internal ethylene glycol-bis N,N,N'',N''-tetraacetic acid or substitution of Ba for Ca slowed the rate of inactivation of the slow inward Ca current in rat heart cells. Ca activation of nonspecific currents was though less likely to have produced these results due to the lack of effect of depolarizing prepulses on hyperpolarizing test pulses. A Ca-dependent component of inactivation may be responsible for the differences observed in both the inactivation and the recovery time courses of the slow inward Ca current in these species.