Electrophysiological effects of remodeling cardiac gap junctions and cell size - Experimental and model studies of normal cardiac growth
Electrophysiological effects of remodeling cardiac gap junctions and cell size - Experimental and model studies of normal cardiac growth
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DOI:
10.1161/01.res.86.3.302
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发表时间:
2000-02-18
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
Barr, RC
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作者:
Spach, MS;Heidlage, JF;Barr, RC
The increased incidence of arrhythmias in structural heart disease is accompanied by remodeling of the cellular distribution of gap junctions to a diffuse pattern like that of neonatal cardiomyocytes. Accordingly, it has become important to know how remodeling of gap junctions due to normal growth hypertrophy alters anisotropic propagation at a cellular level ((V) over dot(max)) in relation to conduction velocities measured at a macroscopic level. To this end, morphological studies of gap junctions (connexin43) and in vitro electrical measurements were performed in neonatal and adult canine ventricular muscle. When cells enlarged, gap junctions shifted from the sides to the ends of ventricular myocytes, Electrically, normal growth produced different patterns of change at a macroscopic and microscopic level. Although the longitudinal and transverse conduction velocities were greater in adult than neonatal muscle, the anisotropic velocity ratios were the same. In the neonate, mean (V) over dot(max) was not different during longitudinal (LP) and transverse (TP) propagation. However, growth hypertrophy produced a selective increase in mean TP (V) over dot(max) (P