Abstract:
:Atrial fibrillation, the most common sustained arrhythmia, is believed to be triggered by ectopic electrical activity originating in the myocardial sleeves surrounding the pulmonary veins (PVs). It has been reported that myocardial sleeves have the potential to generate automaticity in response to norepinephrine. This study investigated the cellular mechanisms underlying norepinephrine-induced automaticity in PV cardiomyocytes isolated from rats. Application of 10 μM norepinephrine to PV cardiomyocytes induced repetitive and transient increases in intracellular Ca(2+) concentrations. The Ca(2+) transient was accompanied by depolarization, and induced automatic rhythmic action potentials at approximately 4Hz in perforated patch clamp preparations in 27% of myocytes were observed. When the recording mode was switched from current-clamp to voltage-clamp mode during the continuous presence of automaticity, an oscillatory current was observed. The oscillatory current was always inward, irrespective of the membrane potential, indicating that the current was derived mainly from the Na(+)-Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX). The norepinephrine-induced automaticity was suppressed by blocking either the β(1)- or α(1)-adrenoceptor. Additionally, this automaticity was blocked by inhibitors of phospholipase C and the inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor (IP(3)R) but not by a protein kinase C inhibitor. We observed that the transverse-tubule system was enriched in cardiomyocytes in the PV, in contrast to those of the atrium, and that the NCX and IP(3)R were co-localized along transverse tubules. These findings suggest that a functional coupling between the NCX and IP(3)R causes arrhythmic excitability of the PV during the presence of combined β(1)- and α(1)-adrenoceptor stimulation.
journal_name
J Mol Cell Cardioljournal_title
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiologyauthors
Okamoto Y,Takano M,Ohba T,Ono Kdoi
10.1016/j.yjmcc.2012.01.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-05-01 00:00:00pages
988-97issue
5eissn
0022-2828issn
1095-8584pii
S0022-2828(12)00036-3journal_volume
52pub_type
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