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Deformation of the Bowditch staircase in Ca(2+)-overloaded mammalian cardiac tissue--a calcium phenomenon?

Abstract：

:Concentrations of 1-4 mumol l-1 isoproterenol cause both in right ventricular papillary muscles and in enzymatically isolated myocytes of the guinea-pig a Ca2+ overload-induced state which is functionally characterized by biphasic (multiphasic) twitches and biphasic (multiphasic) intracellular calcium transients, respectively, during excitation-contraction coupling. This state was stabilized in the in vitro experiments for some hours by a co-ordination of the interstimulus interval, the temperature of the superfusion fluid and the addition of calcium agonists. The functional stability is the precondition for the reproducibility of the experimental results particularly after the application of long-lasting stimulation programmes. Changes in the shape of biphasic contractions were compared with changes in the time course of biphasic intracellular calcium transients using three manipulations of a different kind: (1) the interruption of the steady pacing rhythm, (2) the variation of the interstimulus interval, (3) the addition of ryanodine. It was shown that: (1) The BOWDITCH staircase in calcium overloaded multicellular preparations is changed in that each individual component of the twitch passes through its own staircase. A homologous behaviour can be observed in the configuration of the phasic and tonic component of biphasic intracellular calcium transients. (2) At different driving frequencies the relative proportion of the two components of a biphasic twitch corresponds to the time integrals of the two components of biphasic intracellular calcium transients. (3) Ryanodine suppresses both the first component of the biphasic twitch and the phasic component of the biphasic intracellular calcium transient. The SR Ca(2+)-ATPase inhibitor thapsigargin increases the second component of the biphasic calcium transient. This supports the hypothesis that the size of the tonic component is in part determined by intracellular calcium reuptake. The results of both kinds of experiments would be compatible with the assumption that in calcium overloaded mammalian cardiac cells calcium reaches the contractile system directly as well as via two intracellular stores ('extended two-Ca-store concept').

journal_name

Mol Cell Biochem

journal_title

Molecular and cellular biochemistry

authors

Löhn M,Szymanski G,Markwardt F

doi

10.1007/BF00240026

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-07-01 00:00:00

pages

13-25

eissn

0300-8177

issn

1573-4919

journal_volume

160-161

pub_type

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Deformation of the Bowditch staircase in Ca(2+)-overloaded mammalian cardiac tissue--a calcium phenomenon?