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- Title
Apamin-Sensitive Calcium-Activated Potassium Currents in Rabbit Ventricles with Chronic Myocardial Infarction.
- Authors
LEE, YOUNG SOO; CHANG, PO‐CHENG; HSUEH, CHIA‐HSIANG; MARUYAMA, MITSUNORI; PARK, HYUNG WOOK; RHEE, KYOUNG‐SUK; HSIEH, YU‐CHENG; SHEN, CHANGYU; WEISS, JAMES N.; CHEN, ZHENHUI; LIN, SHIEN‐FONG; CHEN, PENG‐SHENG
- Abstract
SK Currents in Chronic MI Introduction The apamin-sensitive small-conductance calcium-activated potassium current (IKAS) is increased in heart failure. It is unknown if myocardial infarction (MI) is also associated with an increase of IKAS. Methods and Results We performed Langendorff perfusion and optical mapping in 6 normal hearts and 10 hearts with chronic (5 weeks) MI. An additional 6 normal and 10 MI hearts were used for patch clamp studies. The infarct size was 25% (95% confidence interval, 20-31) and the left ventricular ejection fraction was 50 (46-54). The rabbits did not have symptoms of heart failure. The action potential duration measured to 80% repolarization (APD80) in the peri-infarct zone (PZ) was 150 (142-159) milliseconds, significantly (P = 0.01) shorter than that in the normal ventricles (167 [158-177] milliseconds. The intracellular Ca transient duration was also shorter in the PZ (148 [139-157] milliseconds) than that in normal ventricles (168 [157-180] milliseconds; P = 0.017). Apamin prolonged the APD80 in PZ by 9.8 (5.5-14.1)%, which is greater than that in normal ventricles (2.8 [1.3-4.3]%, P = 0.006). Significant shortening of APD80 was observed at the cessation of rapid pacing in MI but not in normal ventricles. Apamin prevented postpacing APD80 shortening. Patch clamp studies showed that IKAS was significantly higher in the PZ cells (2.51 [1.55-3.47] pA/pF, N = 17) than in the normal cells (1.08 [0.36-1.80] pA/pF, N = 15, P = 0.019). Conclusion We conclude that IKAS is increased in MI ventricles and contributes significantly to ventricular repolarization especially during tachycardia.
- Subjects
ACTION potentials; ANALYSIS of variance; ANIMAL experimentation; BODY surface mapping; CHRONIC diseases; CONFIDENCE intervals; MYOCARDIAL infarction; PROBABILITY theory; RABBITS; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); VENOM; WESTERN immunoblotting; DATA analysis; DATA analysis software; MEMBRANE transport proteins
- Publication
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2013, Vol 24, Issue 10, p1144
- ISSN
1045-3873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jce.12176