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Wan Ab Naim WN, Mokhtarudin MJM, Lim E, Chan BT, Ahmad Bakir A, Nik Mohamed NA. The study of border zone formation in ischemic heart using electro-chemical coupled computational model. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2020; 36:e3398. [PMID: 32857480 DOI: 10.1002/cnm.3398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 08/22/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Myocardial infarction (MI) is the most common cause of a heart failure, which occurs due to myocardial ischemia leading to left ventricular (LV) remodeling. LV remodeling particularly occurs at the ischemic area and the region surrounds it, known as the border zone. The role of the border zone in initiating LV remodeling process urges the investigation on the correlation between early border zone changes and remodeling outcome. Thus, this study aims to simulate a preliminary conceptual work of the border zone formation and evolution during onset of MI and its effect towards early LV remodeling processes by incorporating the oxygen concentration effect on the electrophysiology of an idealized three-dimensional LV through electro-chemical coupled mathematical model. The simulation result shows that the region of border zone, represented by the distribution of electrical conductivities, keeps expanding over time. Based on this result, the border zone is also proposed to consist of three sub-regions, namely mildly, moderately, and seriously impaired conductivity regions, which each region categorized depending on its electrical conductivities. This division could be used as a biomarker for classification of reversible and irreversible myocardial injury and will help to identify the different risks for the survival of patient. Larger ischemic size and complete occlusion of the coronary artery can be associated with an increased risk of developing irreversible injury, in particular if the reperfusion treatment is delayed. Increased irreversible injury area can be related with cardiovascular events and will further deteriorate the LV function over time.
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- Wan N Wan Ab Naim
- Faculty of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Technology, University Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Malaysia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham, Semenyih, Malaysia
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- University of Southampton Malaysia Campus, Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Technology, University Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Malaysia
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Zhang S, Zhang S, Fan X, Wang W, Li Z, Jia D, Wei Z, Zhang H. Pro-arrhythmic Effects of Hydrogen Sulfide in Healthy and Ischemic Cardiac Tissues: Insight From a Simulation Study. Front Physiol 2019; 10:1482. [PMID: 31920692 PMCID: PMC6923703 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.01482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), an ambient air pollutant, has been reported to increase cardiac events in patients with cardiovascular diseases, but the underlying mechanisms remain not elucidated. This study investigated the pro-arrhythmic effects of H2S in healthy and ischemic conditions. Experimental data of H2S effects on ionic channels (including the L-type Ca2+ channel and ATP-sensitive K+ channel) were incorporated into a virtual heart model to evaluate their integral action on cardiac arrhythmogenesis. It was shown that H2S depressed cellular excitability, abbreviated action potential duration, and augmented tissue’s transmural dispersion of repolarization, resulting in an increase in tissue susceptibility to initiation and maintenance of reentry. The observed effects of H2S on cardiac excitation are more remarkable in the ischemic condition than in the healthy condition. This study provides mechanistic insights into the pro-arrhythmic effects of air pollution (H2S), especially in the case with extant ischemic conditions.
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- Shugang Zhang
- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Biological Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.,Biological Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.,Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology of Ministry of Education and Medical Electrophysiological Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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Lu L, Ye S, Scalzo RL, Reusch JEB, Greyson CR, Schwartz GG. Metformin prevents ischaemic ventricular fibrillation in metabolically normal pigs. Diabetologia 2017; 60:1550-1558. [PMID: 28497164 PMCID: PMC5798228 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-017-4287-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2016] [Accepted: 03/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Metformin is the drug most often used to treat type 2 diabetes. Evidence suggests that metformin may reduce mortality of individuals with type 2 diabetes, but the mechanism of such an effect is unknown and outcomes of metformin treatment in people without diabetes have not been determined. If metformin favourably affected mortality of non-diabetic individuals, it might have even broader therapeutic utility. We evaluated the effect of metformin on myocardial energetics and ischaemic ventricular fibrillation (VF) in metabolically normal pigs. METHODS Domestic farm pigs were treated with metformin (30 mg kg-1 day-1 orally for 2-3 weeks; n = 36) or received no treatment (n = 37). Under anaesthesia, pigs underwent up to 90 min low-flow regional myocardial ischaemia followed by 45 min of reperfusion. Pigs were monitored for arrhythmia, monophasic action potential morphology, haemodynamics and myocardial substrate utilisation, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) phosphorylation activity and ATP concentration. RESULTS Death due to VF occurred in 12% of pigs treated with metformin compared with 50% of untreated controls (p = 0.03). The anti-fibrillatory effect of metformin was associated with attenuation of action potential shortening in ischaemic myocardium (p = 0.02) and attenuation of the difference in action potential duration between ischaemic and non-ischaemic regions (p < 0.001) compared with untreated controls. Metformin had no effect on myocardial contractile function, oxygen consumption, or glucose or lactate utilisation. During ischaemia, however, metformin treatment amplified the activation of AMPK and preserved ATP concentration in myocardium compared with untreated controls (each p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Chronic treatment of metabolically normal pigs with metformin at a clinically relevant dose reduces mortality from ischaemic VF. This protection is associated with preservation of myocardial energetics during ischaemia. Maintenance of myocardial ATP concentration during ischaemia is likely to prevent action potential shortening, heterogeneity of repolarisation, and propensity for lethal arrhythmia. The findings suggest that metformin might be protective in non-diabetic individuals with coronary heart disease.
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- Li Lu
- Cardiology Section, Denver VA Medical Center, 1055 Clermont St, Mail Code 111B, Denver, CO, 80220, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Cardiology Section, Denver VA Medical Center, 1055 Clermont St, Mail Code 111B, Denver, CO, 80220, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
- Endocrinology/Metabolism Section, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
- Endocrinology/Metabolism Section, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
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- Cardiology Section, Denver VA Medical Center, 1055 Clermont St, Mail Code 111B, Denver, CO, 80220, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Cardiology Section, Denver VA Medical Center, 1055 Clermont St, Mail Code 111B, Denver, CO, 80220, USA.
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
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Decher N, Kiper AK, Rinné S. Stretch-activated potassium currents in the heart: Focus on TREK-1 and arrhythmias. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 130:223-232. [PMID: 28526352 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Revised: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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This review focuses on the role and the molecular candidates of the cardiac stretch-activated potassium current (SAK). The functional properties of the two-pore domain potassium (K2P) channel TREK-1, a major candidate for the cardiac SAK, are analyzed and the molecular mechanism of stretch-activation in K2P potassium channels is discussed. Furthermore, the functional modulation of TREK-1 by different cardiac interaction partners, as well as evidence for the functional role of the stretch-dependent TREK-1 and its putative subunits in the heart is reviewed. In addition, we summarize the recent evidence that TREK-1 is involved in the pathogenesis of human cardiac arrhythmias.
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- Niels Decher
- Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology, AG Vegetative Physiology, Deutschhausstrasse 1-2, 35037 Marburg, Germany.
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- Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology, AG Vegetative Physiology, Deutschhausstrasse 1-2, 35037 Marburg, Germany
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- Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology, AG Vegetative Physiology, Deutschhausstrasse 1-2, 35037 Marburg, Germany
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KATP channels are integral to the functions of many cells and tissues. The use of electrophysiological methods has allowed for a detailed characterization of KATP channels in terms of their biophysical properties, nucleotide sensitivities, and modification by pharmacological compounds. However, even though they were first described almost 25 years ago (Noma 1983, Trube and Hescheler 1984), the physiological and pathophysiological roles of these channels, and their regulation by complex biological systems, are only now emerging for many tissues. Even in tissues where their roles have been best defined, there are still many unanswered questions. This review aims to summarize the properties, molecular composition, and pharmacology of KATP channels in various cardiovascular components (atria, specialized conduction system, ventricles, smooth muscle, endothelium, and mitochondria). We will summarize the lessons learned from available genetic mouse models and address the known roles of KATP channels in cardiovascular pathologies and how genetic variation in KATP channel genes contribute to human disease.
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- Monique N Foster
- Departments of Pediatrics, Physiology & Neuroscience, and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Physiology & Neuroscience, and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York
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Gress S, Lemoine S, Puddu PE, Séralini GE, Rouet R. Cardiotoxic Electrophysiological Effects of the Herbicide Roundup(®) in Rat and Rabbit Ventricular Myocardium In Vitro. Cardiovasc Toxicol 2015; 15:324-35. [PMID: 25448876 DOI: 10.1007/s12012-014-9299-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Roundup (R), a glyphosate (G)-based herbicide (GBH), containing unknown adjuvants is widely dispersed around the world. Used principally by farmers, intoxications have increasingly been reported. We have studied R effects (containing 36 % of G) on right ventricular tissues (male Sprague-Dawley rats, up to 20,000 ppm and female New Zealand rabbits, at 25 and 50 ppm), to investigate R cardiac electrophysiological actions in vitro. We tested the reduced Ca(++) intracellular uptake mechanism as one potential cause of the electrical abnormalities after GBH superfusion, using the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase inhibitor ouabain or the 1,4-dihydropyridine L-type calcium channel agonist BAY K 8644 which increases I Ca. R concentrations were selected based on human blood ranges found after acute intoxication. The study showed dose-dependent V max, APD50 and APD90 variations during 45 min of R superfusion. At the highest concentrations tested, there was a high incidence of conduction blocks, and 30-min washout with normal Tyrode solution did not restore excitability. We also observed an increased incidence of arrhythmias at different doses of R. Ouabain and BAY K 8644 prevented V max decrease, APD90 increase and the cardiac inexcitability induced by R 50 ppm. Glyphosate alone (18 and 180 ppm) had no significant electrophysiological effects. Thus, the action potential prolonging effect of R pointing to I Ca interference might explain both conduction blocks and proarrhythmia in vitro. These mechanisms may well be causative of QT prolongation, atrioventricular conduction blocks and arrhythmias in man after GBH acute intoxications as reported in retrospective hospital records.
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- Steeve Gress
- Institute of Biology, Risk Pole, MRSH-CNRS, EA 2608 Estrogen, Reproduction and Cancer, University of Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032, Caen Cedex, France
- Institute of Biology, EA 4650 Signalisation, électrophysiologie et imagerie des lésions d'ischémie-reperfusion myocardique, University of Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032, Caen Cedex, France
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- Institute of Biology, EA 4650 Signalisation, électrophysiologie et imagerie des lésions d'ischémie-reperfusion myocardique, University of Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032, Caen Cedex, France
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital of Caen, 14033, Caen Cedex, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Caen, Caen, France
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- Laboratory of Biotechnologies Applied to Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Respiratory, Nephrological, Anesthesiological and Geriatric Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161, Rome, Italy.
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- Institute of Biology, Risk Pole, MRSH-CNRS, EA 2608 Estrogen, Reproduction and Cancer, University of Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032, Caen Cedex, France
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- Institute of Biology, EA 4650 Signalisation, électrophysiologie et imagerie des lésions d'ischémie-reperfusion myocardique, University of Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032, Caen Cedex, France
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Stirbys P. Cardiac Events Theoretically Cannot Be Produced By Non-Ischemic And/Or Iso-Ischemic Myocardium: Challenging Postulations And Vitality Of The Concept Of "Ischemia-Dependent Conflictogenic Arrhythmias". J Atr Fibrillation 2013; 6:976. [PMID: 28496918 PMCID: PMC5153142 DOI: 10.4022/jafib.976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2013] [Revised: 12/16/2013] [Accepted: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Ischemia plays a key role in cardiac arrhythmogenesis, particularly in elderly patients. Healthy, non-ischemic and structurally normal myocardium is universally free from dysrhythmias. Thereby intact coronary blood flow prevents potential cardiac events. Hypothetically, ischemia-related electrophysiological differences are responsible for the supraventricular and/or ventricular rhythm irregularities. The goal of this review is to determine the role of systemic and coronary circulatory peculiarities and their association with heart rhythm abnormalities. The current analytical review extends and enriches previous knowledge about the influence of these peculiarities on the genesis of ischemia-dependent conflictogenic arrhythmias. Different intensity of coronary blood flow resulting from stenotic obstacles or vasospasm potentially leads to the non-uniform perfusion of myocites thus creating albeit subtle but vulnerable and powerful electrophysiologic substrate impending cardiac rhythm disturbances. Apparently, the behavior of both non-ischemic and iso-ischemic myocardium in respect to electric cardiac activity is very similar, at least theoretically. Some different clinical entities, e.g. arterial hypotension and/or anemia containing ischemic component, in most cases are free from arrhythmias. This postulation may be helpful in furthering arrhythmogenicity insights which have been generated previously. On the contrary, increased blood pressure often concurs with the supraventricular and/or ventricular arrhythmias; this pattern also favorably reflects our previous hypothetical assumptions associated with the mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis. Conclusively, both non-ischemic and iso-ischemic myocardium may be attributed to nonarrhythmogenic milieu. Nevertheless, the inventive analysis and more explorative data are required to support the suggested postulations.
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- Petras Stirbys
- Department of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital, Kaunas Clinic, Kaunas, Lithuania
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Alexandre J, Schiariti M, Rouet R, Puddu PE. Rabbit ventricular myocardium undergoing simulated ischemia and reperfusion in a double compartment tissue bath: a model to investigate both antiarrhythmic and arrhythmogenic likelihood. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 2013; 5:52-60. [PMID: 23525863 PMCID: PMC3601462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2013] [Accepted: 02/16/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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An ischemia/reperfusion-simulating model in rabbit tissue should be right oriented and clinically relevant to provide a non expensive approach for manipulations of currents involved in the repolarization process. Standard right ventricular guinea-pig (N=18) and newly investigated rabbit (N=12) myocardial strips were placed in a special perfusion chamber allowing partition into two segments independently superfused with oxygenated Tyrode's solution or a modified Tyrode's solution mimicking ischemia by: 1) increased extracellular potassium concentration (12 mmol/L), 2) decreased HCO3 (-) concentration (9 mmol/L), leading to a decrease in pH (6.90 ± 0.05), 3) decreased pO2 by replacement of 95% O2 and 5% CO2 by 95% N2 and 5% CO2 gas mixture, and 4) complete withdrawal of glucose. There were significant differences in rabbit as compared to guinea-pig preparations in baseline (p<0.02) and post-ischemic-like (p<0.01) APA and RMP with lower values in the formers, and lower post-ischemic Vmax in rabbit preparations (25±15 versus 97±83 V/s, p<0.01) but neither baseline nor post-ischemic-like or absolute changes in APD50, APD90 were different. In ischemia- and reperfusion-like phases, there were high proportions of single spontaneous repetitive responses, both in guinea-pig (respectively 50 and 89%) and rabbit preparations (respectively 67 and 92%). Guinea-pig preparations showed higher incidence of severe spontaneous repetitive responses (61 versus 17%, p<0.02). This rabbit model is proposed to investigate both anti- and pro-arrhythmic effects of drugs acting at various levels electrophysiologically, which may be obtained with great power and relatively few (around 10 per group) preparations. This model should now be tested pharmacologically.
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- Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nephrological, Anesthesiological and Geriatric Sciences, Sapienza University of RomeViale del Policlinico 155, I-00161 Rome, Italy
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- Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, EA 4650 Signalisation, électrophysiologie et imagerie des lésions d’ischémie-reperfusion myocardiqueF-14000 Caen, France
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- Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nephrological, Anesthesiological and Geriatric Sciences, Sapienza University of RomeViale del Policlinico 155, I-00161 Rome, Italy
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Taylor TG, Venable PW, Shibayama J, Warren M, Zaitsev AV. Role of KATP channel in electrical depression and asystole during long-duration ventricular fibrillation in ex vivo canine heart. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2012; 302:H2396-409. [PMID: 22467302 PMCID: PMC3378304 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00752.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2011] [Accepted: 03/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Long-duration ventricular fibrillation (LDVF) in the globally ischemic heart is characterized by transmurally heterogeneous decline in ventricular fibrillation rate (VFR), emergence of inexcitable regions, and eventual global asystole. Rapid loss of both local and global excitability is detrimental to successful defibrillation and resuscitation during cardiac arrest. We sought to assess the role of the ATP-sensitive potassium current (I(KATP)) in the timing and spatial pattern of electrical depression during LDVF in a structurally normal canine heart. We analyzed endo-, mid-, and epicardial unipolar electrograms and epicardial optical recordings in the left ventricle of isolated canine hearts during 10 min of LDVF in the absence (control) and presence of an I(KATP) blocker glybenclamide (60 μM). In all myocardial layers, average VFR was the same or higher in glybenclamide-treated than in control hearts. The difference increased with time of LDVF and was overall significant in all layers (P < 0.05). However, glybenclamide did not significantly affect the transmural VFR gradient. In epicardial optical recordings, glybenclamide shortened diastolic intervals, prolonged action potential duration, and decreased the percentage of inexcitable area (all differences P < 0.001). During 10 min of LDVF, asystole occurred in 55.6% of control and none of glybenclamide-treated hearts (P < 0.05). In three hearts paced after the onset of asystole, there was no response to LV epicardial or atrial pacing. In structurally normal canine hearts, I(KATP) opening during LDVF is a major factor in the onset of local and global inexcitability, whereas it has a limited role in overall deceleration of VFR and the transmural VFR gradient.
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- Tyson G Taylor
- Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112-5000, USA
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Direct action of angiotensin II on the conduction through papillary muscle preparations of rat heart immediately after reoxygenation. J Arrhythm 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.joa.2012.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Supplemental Studies for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Safety Pharmacology: A Critical Overview. Cardiovasc Toxicol 2011; 11:285-307. [DOI: 10.1007/s12012-011-9133-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Quindry JC, Schreiber L, Hosick P, Wrieden J, Irwin JM, Hoyt E. Mitochondrial KATP channel inhibition blunts arrhythmia protection in ischemic exercised hearts. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2010; 299:H175-83. [PMID: 20435852 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01211.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The mechanisms responsible for anti-arrhythmic protection during ischemia-reperfusion (IR) in exercised hearts are not fully understood. The purpose of this investigation was to examine whether the ATP-sensitive potassium channels in the mitochondria (mito K(ATP)) and sarcolemma (sarc K(ATP)) provide anti-arrhythmic protection in exercised hearts during IR. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to cardioprotective treadmill exercise or sedentary conditions before IR (I = 20 min, R = 30 min) in vivo. Subsets of exercised animals received pharmacological inhibitors for mito K(ATP) (5-hydroxydecanoate) or sarc K(ATP) (HMR1098) before IR. Blinded analysis of digital ECG tracings revealed that mito K(ATP) inhibition blunted the anti-arrhythmic effects of exercise, while sarc K(ATP) inhibition did not. Endogenous antioxidant enzyme activities for total, CuZn, and Mn superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase from ischemic and perfused ventricular tissue were not mitigated by IR, although oxidative stress was elevated in sedentary and mito K(ATP)-inhibited hearts from exercised animals. These findings suggest that the mito K(ATP) channel provides anti-arrhythmic protection as part of exercise-mediated cardioprotection against IR. Furthermore, these data suggest that the observed anti-arrhythmic protection may be associated with preservation of redox balance in exercised hearts.
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- John C Quindry
- Cardioprotection Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
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Tang L, Deng C, Long M, Tang A, Wu S, Dong Y, Saravolatz LD, Gardin JM. Thrombin receptor and ventricular arrhythmias after acute myocardial infarction. Mol Med 2008; 14:131-40. [PMID: 18224254 DOI: 10.2119/2007-00097.tang] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2007] [Accepted: 01/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mechanism mediating the development of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is still uncertain. Thrombin receptor (TR) activation has been proven to be arrhythmogenic in many other situations, and we hypothesize that it may participate in the genesis of post-AMI VA. Using a left coronary artery ligation rat model of AMI, we found that a local injection of hirudin into the left ventricle (LV) significantly reduced the ratio of VA durations to infarction sizing, whereas injection of thrombin receptor-activating peptide (TRAP) increased the ratios of VA duration to infarction sizing. The effects of TR activation on whole-cell currents were investigated in isolated myocytes. TRAP increased a glibenclamide-sensitive outward current. Pretreatment of rats with glibenclamide (4 mg/kg intraperitoneally) eliminated the effects of a local injection of TRAP on the ratios of VA durations to infarction sizing. TR mRNA and protein expression in the ischemic left ventricle had reached its peak by 20 min postligation in the rat AMI model (P < 0.05). TR-immunoreactive myocytes were observed in infarcted LV but were seldom seen in the right ventricle or in the normal heart. By 60 min, TR transcript levels had returned to control levels. We conclude that increased TR activation and expression in the infarcted LV after AMI may contribute to VA through a mechanism involving glibenclamide-sensitive potassium channels.
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- Lilong Tang
- Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital to Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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Lu L, Reiter MJ, Xu Y, Chicco A, Greyson CR, Schwartz GG. Thiazolidinedione drugs block cardiac KATP channels and may increase propensity for ischaemic ventricular fibrillation in pigs. Diabetologia 2008; 51:675-85. [PMID: 18251006 PMCID: PMC3633423 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-008-0924-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2007] [Accepted: 12/04/2007] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Opening of ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels during myocardial ischaemia shortens action potential duration and is believed to be an adaptive, energy-sparing response. Thiazolidinedione drugs block K(ATP) channels in non-cardiac cells in vitro. This study determined whether thiazolidinedione drugs block cardiac K(ATP) channels in vivo. METHODS Experiments in 68 anaesthetised pigs determined: (1) effects of inert vehicle, troglitazone (10 mg/kg i.v.) or rosiglitazone (0.1 or 1.0 mg/kg i.v.) on epicardial monophasic action potential (MAP) during 90 min low-flow ischaemia; (2) effects of troglitazone, rosiglitazone or pioglitazone (1 mg/kg i.v.) on response of MAP to intracoronary infusion of a K(ATP) channel opener, levcromakalim; and (3) effects of inert vehicle, rosiglitazone (1 mg/kg i.v.) or the sarcolemmal K(ATP) blocker HMR-1098 on time to onset of ventricular fibrillation following complete coronary occlusion. RESULTS With vehicle, epicardial MAP shortened by 44+/-9 ms during ischaemia. This effect was attenuated to 12+/-8 ms with troglitazone and 6+/-6 ms with rosiglitazone (p<0.01 for both vs vehicle), suggesting K(ATP) blockade. Intracoronary levcromakalim shortened MAP by 38+/-10 ms, an effect attenuated to 12+/-8, 13+/-4 and 9+/-5 ms during co-treatment with troglitazone, rosiglitazone or pioglitazone (p<0.05 for each), confirming K(ATP) blockade. During coronary occlusion, median time to ventricular fibrillation was 29 min in pigs treated with vehicle and 6 min in pigs treated with rosiglitazone or HMR-1098 (p<0.05 for both vs vehicle), indicating that K(ATP) blockade promotes ischaemic ventricular fibrillation in this model. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Thiazolidinedione drugs block cardiac K(ATP) channels at clinically relevant doses and promote onset of ventricular fibrillation during severe ischaemia.
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- L Lu
- VA Medical Center and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
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Hanouz JL, Repesse Y, Zhu L, Lemoine S, Rouet R, Sallé L, Plaud B, Gérard JL. The electrophysiological effects of racemic ketamine and etomidate in an in vitro model of "border zone" between normal and ischemic/reperfused guinea pig myocardium. Anesth Analg 2008; 106:365-70, table of contents. [PMID: 18227286 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31816052b6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Etomidate and ketamine are used during induction of anesthesia in high-risk patients. However, their effects on action potential (AP) variables and ischemia/reperfusion-induced arrhythmias and conduction blocks are unknown. METHODS Guinea pig right ventricular muscle strips were mounted in a 5-mL double chamber bath with the strips separated into two zones by an impermeable latex membrane. One-half (normal zone) was exposed to normal perfusate while the other half (altered zone) was exposed to hypoxia, hyperkalemia, acidosis, and lack of glucose. AP variables were recorded continuously in the normal and altered zones. Spontaneous arrhythmias and conduction blocks were noted. Etomidate (10(-7), 10(-6), and 10(-5) M) and ketamine (10(-6), 10(-5), and 10(-4) M) were superfused into the bath throughout the experiment and the electrophysiologic effects compared with the control group. RESULTS We found that under control conditions, etomidate and ketamine did not modify resting membrane potential, maximal upstroke velocity, AP amplitude, or AP duration at 90% of repolarization (APD90). Ketamine (10(-4) M), but not weaker concentrations and none of the concentration of etomidate, reversed the ischemia-induced shortening of APD90 and APD dispersion. Etomidate and ketamine did not modify the occurrence of conduction block during simulated ischemia. In contrast, ketamine (25% at 10(-6) M, 13% at 10(-5) M, and 13% at 10(-4) M vs 90% in the control group, P < 0.05) but not etomidate (38% at 10(-7) M, 63% at 10(-6) M, and 63% at 10(-5) M vs 90% in the control group, NS) decreased the incidence of reperfusion-induced spontaneous arrhythmias. CONCLUSIONS In guinea pig myocardium, our data suggest that ketamine, in clinically relevant concentrations, decreases ischemia-induced AP shortening and spontaneous reperfusion-induced ventricular arrhythmias. Further study is required to precisely determine the effect of etomidate on reperfusion-induced arrhythmias.
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- Jean-Luc Hanouz
- Département d'Anesthésie réanimation, CHU de Caen, Ave. Côte de Nacre, 14033 Caen Cedex, France.
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Trénor B, Romero L, Ferrero JM, Sáiz J, Moltó G, Alonso JM. Vulnerability to reentry in a regionally ischemic tissue: a simulation study. Ann Biomed Eng 2007; 35:1756-70. [PMID: 17616818 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-007-9353-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2006] [Accepted: 06/29/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Sudden cardiac death is mainly provoked by arrhythmogenic processes. During myocardial ischemia many malignant arrhythmias, such as reentry, take place and can degenerate into ventricular fibrillation. It is thus of great interest to unravel the intricate mechanisms underlying the initiation and maintenance of a reentry. In this computational study, we analyze the probability of reentry during different stages of the acute phase of ischemia. We also aimed at the understanding of the role of its main components: hypoxia, hyperkalemia, and acidosis analyzing the intricate ionic mechanisms responsible for reentry generation. We simulated the electrical activity of a ventricular tissue affected by regional ischemia based on a modified version of the Luo-Rudy model (LRd00). The ischemic conditions were varied to simulate different stages of this pathology. After premature stimulation, we evaluated the vulnerability to reentry. We obtained an unimodal behavior for the vulnerable window as ischemia progressed, peaking at the eighth minute after the onset of ischemia where the vulnerable window yielded 58 ms. Under more severe conditions the vulnerable window decreased and became zero for minute 8.75. The present work provides insight into the mechanisms of reentry generation during ischemia, highlighting the role of acidosis and hypoxia when hyperkalemia is present.
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- Beatriz Trénor
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain.
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Puddu PE, Garlid KD, Monti F, Iwashiro K, Picard S, Dawodu AA, Criniti A, Ruvolo G, Campa PP. Bimakalim: A Promising KATP Channel Activating Agent. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-3466.2000.tb00031.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Akar FG, Aon MA, Tomaselli GF, O'Rourke B. The mitochondrial origin of postischemic arrhythmias. J Clin Invest 2005; 115:3527-35. [PMID: 16284648 PMCID: PMC1280968 DOI: 10.1172/jci25371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2005] [Accepted: 08/30/2005] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Recovery of the mitochondrial inner membrane potential (DeltaPsi(m)) is a key determinant of postischemic functional recovery of the heart. Mitochondrial ROS-induced ROS release causes the collapse of DeltaPsi(m) and the destabilization of the action potential (AP) through a mechanism involving a mitochondrial inner membrane anion channel (IMAC) modulated by the mitochondrial benzodiazepine receptor (mBzR). Here, we test the hypothesis that this mechanism contributes to spatiotemporal heterogeneity of DeltaPsi(m) during ischemia-reperfusion (IR), thereby promoting abnormal electrical activation and arrhythmias in the whole heart. High-resolution optical AP mapping was performed in perfused guinea pig hearts subjected to 30 minutes of global ischemia followed by reperfusion. Typical electrophysiological responses, including progressive AP shortening followed by membrane inexcitablity in ischemia and ventricular fibrillation upon reperfusion, were observed in control hearts. These responses were reduced or eliminated by treatment with the mBzR antagonist 4'-chlorodiazepam (4'-Cl-DZP), which blocks depolarization of DeltaPsi(m). When applied throughout the IR protocol, 4'-Cl-DZP blunted AP shortening and prevented reperfusion arrhythmias. Inhibition of ventricular fibrillation was also achieved by bolus infusion of 4'-Cl-DZP just before reperfusion. Conversely, treatment with an agonist of the mBzR that promotes DeltaPsi(m) depolarization exacerbated IR-induced electrophysiological changes and failed to prevent arrhythmias. The effects of these compounds were consistent with their actions on IMAC and DeltaPsi(m). These findings directly link instability of DeltaPsi(m) to the heterogeneous electrophysiological substrate of the postischemic heart and highlight the mitochondrial membrane as a new therapeutic target for arrhythmia prevention in ischemic heart disease.
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- Fadi G Akar
- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 210205, USA
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Kuklik P, Zebrowski JJ. Reentry wave formation in excitable media with stochastically generated inhomogeneities. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2005; 15:33301. [PMID: 16252987 DOI: 10.1063/1.1947427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Clinical research shows that the frequency of arrhythmia events depends on the number and area of the border zones of infarct scars. We investigate the possibility that arrhythmia is initiated by reentry waves generated by the inhomogeneity of conduction velocity at the border zone. The interaction of a plane wave with a spatially extended inhomogeneity is simulated in the FitzHugh- Nagumo model. The inhomogeneity is introduced into the model by modifying the spatial dependence of the diffusion coefficient in a stochastic manner. This results in a rich variety of spatial distributions of conductivity. A plane wave propagating through such a system may break up on the regions with low conductivity and produce numerous spiral waves. The frequency of reentry wave formation is studied as a function of the parameters of the inhomogeneity generation algorithm. Three main scenarios of reentry wave formation were found: unidirectional block, main wave-wavelet collision, and wave break up during collision, on a region in which a conduction velocity gradient occurs. These scenarios are likely candidates for the mechanisms of arrhythmia initiation in a damaged tissue, e.g., the border zone of an infarct scar.
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- Paweł Kuklik
- Faculty of Physics and Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research at Warsaw University of Technology, ul. Koszykowa 75, Warsaw, Poland.
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Zhu BM, Miyamoto S, Nagasawa Y, Wajima T, Hashimoto K. Effect of the sarcolemmal K(ATP) channel blocker HMR1098 on arrhythmias induced by programmed electrical stimulation in canine old myocardial infarction model: comparison with glibenclamide. J Pharmacol Sci 2004; 93:106-13. [PMID: 14501159 DOI: 10.1254/jphs.93.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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The blockade of myocardial K(ATP) channels may be antiarrhythmic for ischemic arrhythmias. A new sulfonylthiourea, HMR1098 (1-[5-[2-(5-chloro-o-anisamido)ethyl]-2-methoxyphenylsulfonyl]-3-methylthiourea, sodium salt), was demonstrated to be a cardioselective K(ATP)-channel antagonist and to suppress arrhythmias during acute ischemia. We investigated effects of HMR1098 on the arrhythmias induced by programmed electrical stimulation (PES) in a canine old myocardial infarction model. HMR1098 (3 mg/kg, i.v.) significantly improved the scores of PES-induced ventricular arrhythmias, without changing the blood glucose concentrations. A classical sulfonylurea, glibenclamide (1 mg/kg, i.v.), had no significant effects on these arrhythmias, but reduced the blood glucose and increased the plasma insulin concentrations.
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- Bing-Mei Zhu
- Department of Pharmacology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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INTRODUCTION It is the hypothesis of this article that the onset of fibrillation following a coronary artery occlusion is a direct consequence of the spatial inhomogeneity of chemical processes that occur following the occlusion. In particular, the localized increase of extracellular potassium and decrease of ATP availability lead to an increase of resting potential in the affected cells. This difference in potential between affected cells and normal cells drives a current, the "current of injury," which may drive oscillations in the border zone, a "border zone arrhythmia." The border zone arrhythmia may drive a "breakup instability" (related to the action potential duration restitution instability) in the surrounding tissue, leading to self-sustained fibrillation. METHODS AND RESULTS In this article, we present a mathematical model demonstrating this transition from normal to fibrillatory dynamics, describing the general conditions under which this transition occurs and showing in a simple ionic model the way in which spatial inhomogeneity alone can initiate self-sustained reentrant activity. CONCLUSION Using general arguments and numerical simulations with generic models of excitable media, we have demonstrated that a spatial region with an elevated resting potential surrounded by a spatial region wherein action potentials are foreshortened can drive a breakup instability, leading to the rapid initiation of a fibrillatory state.
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- James P Keener
- Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
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Jew KN, Moore RL. Exercise training alters an anoxia-induced, glibenclamide-sensitive current in rat ventricular cardiocytes. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2002; 92:1473-9. [PMID: 11896012 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00513.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The effect of training on properties of a sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive K+ current (I(K(ATP))) was examined in left ventricular cardiocytes isolated from sedentary (Sed) and trained (Tr) female Sprague-Dawley rats. Whole cell patch-clamp techniques were used to characterize I(K(ATP)), an anoxia-inducible, glibencamide-sensitive current. An anoxic condition was induced by superfusing cells with a buffer that was equilibrated with 100% N(2), maintained under a layer of argon, and that contained 2-deoxy-D-glucose. Over a 1-h period of anoxia, 59% of Tr cells and 85% Sed cells expressed I(K(ATP)). In those cells that did express I(K(ATP)), the time to expression of the current during the anoxic period occurred significantly later in cells from the Tr group compared with the Sed. Peak I(K(ATP)) density was significantly lower in the Tr cells compared with the Sed cells. These results indicate that the onset and magnitude of I(K(ATP)) were altered by training. These alterations in I(K(ATP)) may be reflective of processes that contribute to training-induced cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion damage.
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- Korinne N Jew
- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Colorado Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0354, USA
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Jew KN, Moore RL. Glibenclamide improves postischemic recovery of myocardial contractile function in trained and sedentary rats. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2001; 91:1545-54. [PMID: 11568135 DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2001.91.4.1545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In this study, we sought to determine whether there was any evidence for the idea that cardiac ATP-sensitive K+ (K(ATP)) channels play a role in the training-induced increase in the resistance of the heart to ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. To do so, the effects of training and an K(ATP) channel blocker, glibenclamide (Glib), on the recovery of left ventricular (LV) contractile function after 45 min of ischemia and 45 min of reperfusion were examined. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were sedentary (Sed; n = 18) or were trained (Tr; n = 17) for >20 wk by treadmill running, and the hearts from these animals used in a Langendorff-perfused isovolumic LV preparation to assess contractile function. A significant increase in the amount of 72-kDa class of heat shock protein was observed in hearts isolated from Tr rats. The I/R protocol elicited significant and substantial decrements in LV developed pressure (LVDP), minimum pressure (MP), rate of pressure development, and rate of pressure decline and elevations in myocardial Ca(2+) content in both Sed and Tr hearts. In addition, I/R elicited a significant increase in LV diastolic stiffness in Sed, but not Tr, hearts. When administered in the perfusate, Glib (1 microM) elicited a normalization of all indexes of LV contractile function and reductions in myocardial Ca(2+) content in both Sed and Tr hearts. Training increased the functional sensitivity of the heart to Glib because LVDP and MP values normalized more quickly with Glib treatment in the Tr than the Sed group. The increased sensitivity of Tr hearts to Glib is a novel finding that may implicate a role for cardiac K(ATP) channels in the training-induced protection of the heart from I/R injury.
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- K N Jew
- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Colorado Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0354, USA.
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Holmes DS, Sun ZQ, Porter LM, Bernstein NE, Chinitz LA, Artman M, Coetzee WA. Amiodarone inhibits cardiac ATP-sensitive potassium channels. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2000; 11:1152-8. [PMID: 11059980 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2000.tb01762.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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INTRODUCTION ATP-sensitive K+ channels (K(ATP)) are expressed abundantly in cardiovascular tissues. Blocking this channel in experimental models of ischemia can reduce arrhythmias. We investigated the acute effects of amiodarone on the activity of cardiac sarcolemmal K(ATP) channels and their sensitivity to ATP. METHODS AND RESULTS Single K(ATP) channel activity was recorded using inside-out patches from rat ventricular myocytes (symmetric 140 mM K+ solutions and a pipette potential of +40 mV). Amiodarone inhibited K(ATP) channel activity in a concentration-dependent manner. After 60 seconds of exposure to amiodarone, the fraction of mean patch current relative to baseline current was 1.0 +/- 0.05 (n = 4), 0.8 +/- 0.07 (n = 4), 0.6 +/- 0.07 (n = 5), and 0.2 +/- 0.05 (n = 7) with 0, 0.1, 1.0, or 10 microM amiodarone, respectively (IC50 = 2.3 microM). ATP sensitivity was greater in the presence of amiodarone (EC50 = 13 +/- 0.2 microM in the presence of 10 microM amiodarone vs 43 +/- 0.1 microM in controls, n = 5; P < 0.05). Kinetic analysis showed that open and short closed intervals (bursting activity) were unchanged by 1 microM amiodarone, whereas interburst closed intervals were prolonged. Amiodarone also inhibited whole cell K(ATP) channel current (activated by 100 microM bimakalim). After a 10-minute application of amiodarone (10 microM), relative current was 0.71 +/- 0.03 vs 0.92 +/- 0.09 in control (P < 0.03). CONCLUSION Amiodarone rapidly inhibited K(ATP) channel activity by both promoting channel closure and increasing ATP sensitivity. These actions may contribute to the antiarrhythmic properties of amiodarone.
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- D S Holmes
- Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016, USA.
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Monti F, Iwashiro K, Picard S, Criniti A, La Francesca S, Ruvolo G, Papalia U, Campa PP, Marino B, Puddu PE. Adenosine triphosphate-dependent potassium channel modulation and cardioplegia-induced protection of human atrial muscle in an in vitro model of myocardial stunning. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000; 119:842-8. [PMID: 10733778 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(00)70022-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Although adenosine triphosphate-dependent potassium channel openers have been shown to enhance cardioplegic protection in animal myocardium, there is a lack of data on human cardiac tissues. We aimed at determining, on human atrial muscle, whether adenosine triphosphate- dependent potassium channels are involved in protection caused by high-potassium cardioplegia and whether adenosine triphosphate-dependent potassium channel activation might improve cardioplegic protection in an in vitro model of myocardial stunning. METHODS Human atrial trabeculae were obtained from adult patients undergoing cardiac operations. In an organ bath at 37 degrees C, the preparations were subjected to 60 minutes of hypoxia at a high stimulation rate either in Tyrode solution (control, n = 17) or in St Thomas' Hospital solution without additives (n = 6) or associated with 100 nmol/L bimakalim (n = 7) or 1 micromol/L glibenclamide (n = 7), followed by 60 minutes of reoxygenation and 15 minutes of positive inotropic stimulation with 1 micromol/L dobutamine. RESULTS Atrial developed tension was reduced by hypoxia to 27% +/- 5% of baseline and incompletely recovered after reoxygenation to 38% +/- 7%, whereas dobutamine restored contractility to 74% +/- 7% of basal values. St Thomas' Hospital solution with or without bimakalim improved developed tension after reoxygenation and dobutamine (P <.0001 vs control), whereas glibenclamide inhibited these protective effects of cardioplegic arrest (P =.001 vs St Thomas' Hospital solution). After reoxygenation, the protective effect of bimakalim disappeared at a high pacing rate (400- and 300-ms cycle length) but recovered during dobutamine superfusion. CONCLUSIONS Adenosine triphosphate-dependent potassium channels are likely involved in the cardioprotective effects of cardioplegia in human atrial trabeculae and adenosine triphosphate-dependent potassium channel activation with bimakalim used as an additive to cardioplegia enhanced protection.
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- F Monti
- Laboratory of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Department of Cardiac Surgery and Second Section of Cardiology, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy
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Terrenoire C, Piriou V, Bonvallet R, Chouabe C, Espinosa L, Rougier O, Tourneur Y. Opposite effects of halothane on guinea-pig ventricular action potential duration. Eur J Pharmacol 2000; 390:95-101. [PMID: 10708711 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(00)00019-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Halothane protects the heart against the reperfusion injury observed after an ischemia. In ischemic or anoxic conditions, a large ATP-sensitive K(+) (K(ATP)) conductance is supposed to provide an endogenous protection to the myocardium. In this study, we tested the possibility that halothane acted by modulating this conductance. Isolated guinea-pig cardiomyocytes were successively studied in current clamp and in voltage-clamp conditions. Action potentials regulation by halothane was tested in control conditions and in situations where the K(ATP) channels were activated. In control conditions, halothane decreased action potential duration of myocytes but did not significantly alter the inward rectifying K(+) current. Conversely, halothane lengthened action potential of cells in which the K(ATP) conductance was activated, by inhibiting the K(ATP) current. In ischemic conditions, simultaneous shortening of long action potentials and lengthening of shortened ones would be expected to homogenize the absolute refractory period at the border between normoxic and anoxic zones. This effect, together with a decrease in calcium load, could protect the myocardium against re-entrant arrhythmias.
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- C Terrenoire
- CNRS UMR5578, Laboratoire de Physiologie des Eléments Excitables, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
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