Abstract:
:The rapid application of caffeine to cardiac myocytes is commonly used to assess changes in the Ca2+ content of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and to study other parameters of intracellular Ca2+ regulation. Here we examined the effects of rapid caffeine application on membrane potential, intracellular Ca2+, and cell shortening in ventricular myocytes (rat, rabbit, guinea pig, dog) and atrial myocytes (rabbit) that were not voltage clamped. Conditioning pacing was used to achieve a steady-state level of SR Ca2+ loading prior to caffeine (10 mM) application. Caffeine transiently depolarized myocytes as expected from activation of forward Na+-Ca2+ exchange. However, we also found in each species (50% rat, 36% rabbit ventricular, 53% rabbit atrial, 56% guinea pig, 31% dog) that the caffeine-induced depolarization could also trigger an action potential. Caffeine-triggered potentials were completely blocked by thapsigargin (1 microM). The Ca2+ transient and contraction that accompanied caffeine-triggered action potentials had a larger magnitude and slower rate of decline (or relaxation) than occurred during caffeine-induced subthreshold depolarizations. Thus, the use of rapid caffeine application to study SR function and [Ca2+]i regulation in myocytes that are not voltage clamped can yield erroneous results.
journal_name
J Mol Cell Cardioljournal_title
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiologyauthors
Zaniboni M,Yao A,Barry WH,Musso E,Spitzer KWdoi
10.1006/jmcc.1998.0782subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-11-01 00:00:00pages
2229-35issue
11eissn
0022-2828issn
1095-8584pii
S0022-2828(98)90782-9journal_volume
30pub_type
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