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Electropharmacological effects of berberine on canine cardiac Purkinje fibres and ventricular muscle and atrial muscle of the rabbit.

Abstract：

:1. Conventional microelectrode techniques were used for intracellular recordings of the transmembrane electrical potentials, the effects of berberine were studied on canine cardiac Purkinje and ventricular muscle fibres and on rabbit atrial fibres. 2. Berberine (3-30 microM) increased in a concentration-dependent manner, the action potential duration (APD) in canine Purkinje and ventricular muscle without affecting other parameters of the action potential. 3. The berberine-induced enlargement of the APD showed reverse use-dependence, so that the effect was greater at lower rates of stimulation. 4. Preparations perfused with berberine (30 microM) and driven at rates below 0.5 Hz exhibited early after depolarizations which persisted 3-4 h after washing. 5. The early afterdepolarizations were reversibly abolished by perfusion with lignocaine (3 microM) or by the increase in the rate of stimulation. 6. The effective refractory period (ERP) of Purkinje fibres was greatly increased by berberine (30 microM); however, the ratio ERP/APD was not significantly affected. 7. Berberine (10-100 microM) decreased in a concentration-dependent manner the spontaneous frequency of rabbit sinoatrial cells. The decrease in frequency was accompanied by a depression of the phase 4 depolarization, without significant changes in other parameters of the nodal action potential. 8. Atropine (2.5 microM) did not affect the bradycardic effect of berberine. On the other hand, berberine (30 microM) did not alter the chronotropic effect of isoprenaline. 9. Berberine (30 microM) also increased the duration of slow responses in K-depolarized rabbit atrial muscle fibres, other parameters being unaffected. 10. It is suggested that berberine exerts Class III antiarrhythmic and proarrhythmic actions in cardiac muscle of the dog in vitro.

journal_name

Br J Pharmacol

journal_title

British journal of pharmacology

authors

Riccioppo Neto F

doi

10.1111/j.1476-5381.1993.tb12836.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-02-01 00:00:00

pages

534-7

issue

eissn

0007-1188

issn

1476-5381

journal_volume

108

pub_type

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Electropharmacological effects of berberine on canine cardiac Purkinje fibres and ventricular muscle and atrial muscle of the rabbit.