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- Title
Ryanodine Receptor-Targeted Anti-Arrhythmic Therapy.
- Authors
WEHRENS, XANDER H.T.; LEHNART, STEPHAN E.; MARKS, ANDREW R.
- Abstract
Cardiac arrhythmia is an important cause of death in patients with heart failure (HF) and inherited arrhythmia syndromes, such as catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Alterations in intracellular calcium handling play a prominent role in the generation of arrhythmias in the failing heart. Diastolic calcium leak from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) via cardiac ryanodine receptors (RyR2) may initiate delayed afterdepolarizations and triggered activity leading to arrhythmias. Similarly, SR Ca2+ leak through mutant RyR2 channels may cause triggered activity during exercise in patients with CPVT. Novel therapeutic approaches, based on recent advances in the understanding of the cellular mechanisms underlying arrhythmias in HF and CPVT, are currently being evaluated to specifically correct defective Ca2+ release in these lethal syndromes.
- Subjects
ARRHYTHMIA; HEART failure; SARCOPLASMIC reticulum; HEART diseases; ORGANELLES
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2005, Vol 1047, Issue 1, p366
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1341.032