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Effects of K-channel blockers, calcium, and verapamil suggest different pacemaker mechanisms in cultured neonatal rat and embryonic chick ventricle cells.

Abstract：

:We compared the determinants of spontaneous activity in explanted neonatal (2-day-old) rat ventricle cells and in reaggregates derived from 15-day-old chick embryos. We studied the beating rate with an optical recording method and the underlying electrical activity with glass microelectrodes using the K current blockers cesium (Cs) and tetraethylammonium, varied Ca concentrations, and the Ca antagonist verapamil. In the rat (i) Cs increased the beating rate that was mediated by an increase in the slope of the diastolic potential. (ii) Ca increased the beating rate dramatically at low and medium concentrations to decrease it again at 8 mM Cao. This increase in the beating rate was mediated by an increase of the slope of the diastolic depolarization. (iii) The beating rate decreased with verapamil at concentrations between 0.5 and 2.0 microM. The effects of Cs and Ca suggest that an increase in net inward current (block of IK1) underlies the positive chronotropic effect of Cs and that the pacemaker mechanism is determined by a Ca inward current or an IT1 type current modulated by variations of Cai. In the chick reaggregates (i) Cs and tetraethylammonium decreased the beating rate that was mainly brought about by a decrease in the slope of diastolic depolarization. (ii) Ca increased the beating rate but to a lesser degree than in the rat and there was no decrease of the beating rate at higher concentrations. (iii) The increase in the beating rate was not mediated by an increase in the slope of the diastolic potential but mainly by a depolarization of the maximum diastolic potential. (iv) Verapamil inhibited electrogenesis before any change in the diastolic potential was evident. The negative chronotropic effect of Cs and tetraethylammonium is compatible with the notion that a voltage- and time-dependent K current was inhibited and that this current determines the pacemaker. Moreover, the Ca component of the pacemaker mechanism in explanted rat ventricle cells resembles either that of the sinoatrial node or represents triggered activity.

journal_name

Can J Physiol Pharmacol

journal_title

Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors

Schanne OF,Boutin L,Derosiers J

doi

10.1139/y89-126

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-07-01 00:00:00

pages

795-800

issue

eissn

0008-4212

issn

1205-7541

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Effects of K-channel blockers, calcium, and verapamil suggest different pacemaker mechanisms in cultured neonatal rat and embryonic chick ventricle cells.