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| Author(s): |
Rafael de Almeida Ricardo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2010-09-24 |
| Examining board members: |
José Wilson Magalhães Bassani;
Jader dos Santos Cruz;
Wamberto Antonio Varanda;
Orlando Petrucci Junior;
Eduardo Tavares Costa
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| Advisor: | Rosana Almada Bassani; José Wilson Magalhães Bassani |
| Abstract | |
The force-frequency relationship is an intrinsic characteristic of cardiac muscle. It is manifested in different ways depending on the species, and its mechanisms still remain to be completely understood. A possible mechanism is the variation of Ca2+ release by the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), the main source of the ion for contraction activation in mammalian myocardium. The main goal of this work was to determine the relationship between the fractional SR Ca2+ release (FR) and stimulatory frequency in isolated rat ventricular myocytes. Action potentials (AP) were recorded at 23ºC using the perforated whole-cell patch-clamp technique at different rates, and the representative AP at each rate was used later as stimulus waveforms (action potential clamp). L-type Ca2+ current (ICaL) and intracellular Ca2+ transient (D[Ca2+]i, measured with indo-1) were recorded simultaneously using action potential clamp. FR at a twitch was assumed to be the ratio of the systolic variation in total [Ca2+] minus ICaL integral, and the SR content ([Ca2+]SR). AP duration at 90% repolarization (APD90) increased from 76 ± 9 ms at 0.2 Hz to 130 ± 11 ms at 2 Hz (p<0.05). At 0.2 Hz, ICaL peak was -4.5 ± 0.7 pA/pF, and it decreased to -2.7 ± 0.4 pA/pF with increasing frequency to 2 Hz (p<0.05). D[Ca2+]i decreased from 603 ± 56 nM to 408 ± 32 nM (p<0,05), at 0.2 and 2 Hz, respectively. FR also decreased with frequency, from 0.81 ±0.02 at 0.2 Hz to 0.54 ±0.02 at 2 Hz (p<0.01), whereas [Ca2+]SR did not change significantly. The negative relationship between Ca2+ transient amplitude and stimulation rate is likely to be due to the observed decrease in SR Ca2+ release. Lower FR at higher rates might be due to decrease in ICaL peak, which is the main trigger of SR Ca2+ release. (AU) | |