兔右房超速驱动后阻抑机制的初步探讨

本文用微电极技术,在20份离体兔心窦房结标本上观察了不同驱动频率和驱动时程对窦房结超速驱动后阻抑的影响。结果表明,在一定范围内右房超速驱动后阻抑及驱动后的负性变速效应,随驱动频率和驱动时程增加而加强。高频驱动期间和驱动停止后,优势起搏细胞跨膜电位幅度减小。驱动停止后第一个窦性动作电位4相自动去极化斜率和0相上升速率均降低,与驱动前相比有非常显著的差异(P<0.01)。毒扁豆碱可加强驱动后阻抑及驱动后的负性变速效应,阿托品不能完全阻断驱动后阻抑。我们初步认为:右房超速驱动后阻抑效应可能是内源性乙酰胆碱的释放和[Na~ ]_i 及[Ca~2 ]_i 的增加等多种因素作用的结果。     

Presynaptic and postsynaptic actions of cadmium in cardiac muscle

A transmembrane flux of Ca2+ has been demonstrated in many nerve and muscle cells. In cardiac muscle, Ca2+ channels in the sarcolemma transfer sufficient Ca2+ to trigger and partially control tension development. This time- and voltage-dependent Ca2+ current is also important in the development of the pacemaker potential, or diastolic depolarization. In addition, transmitter release from autonomic nerve varicosities in the myocardium exhibits a strong dependence on external calcium concentration [( Ca2+]o). Agents that selectively alter either pre- or postsynaptic Ca2+ channels are therefore of considerable interest. Our results illustrate two distinct effects of Cd2+ in cardiac muscle. Data from conventional electrophysiological recordings from primary pacemaker cells within the rabbit sinoatrial node indicate that Cd2+ (10(-6)-10(-5) M) may selectively inhibit acetylcholine release. Voltage clamp measurements of transmembrane Ca2+ currents in single isolated bullfrog atrial cells show that Cd2+ (10(-4)-10(-3) M) is also a very potent inhibitor of postsynaptic Ca2+ channels; these effects of Cd2+ mimic those seen after [Ca2+]o removal.     

硫化氢对家兔窦房结起搏细胞的电生理效应

本研究应用细胞内微电极技术,观察硫化氢(hydrogen sulfide,H2S)对家兔窦房结起搏细胞的电生理效应.结果表明:(1)NaHs(H2S供体)50、100、200 μmol/L浓度依赖地降低家兔窦房结起搏细胞4相去极化速率及起搏放电频率.(2)ATP敏感性钾(ATP-sensitive K ,KATP)通道阻断剂格列苯脲(glybenclamide,Gli,20 μmol/L)阻断NariS(100 μmol/L)的电生理效应.(3)预先应用起搏离子流(pacemaker currenL,If)通道阻断剂氯化铯(CsCl,2 mmol/L)对Naris(100μmol/L.)的电生理效应无影响.(4)胱硫醚-γ裂解酶(cystathionine γ-lyase,CSE)的不可逆抑制剂DL-propargylglycine (PPG,200 μmol/L)的家兔窦房结起搏细胞的动作电位参数无影响.以上结果提示,H2S对家兔窦房结起搏细胞有负性变时作用,这些效应可能与其开放KATP通道,增加K 外流有关,与If无关.本实验没有发现窦房结起搏细胞内有CSE催化产生的内源性H2S的合成.     

内皮素和ATP敏感性钾通道介导缺氧所致家兔窦房结起搏细胞的电生理效应

用细胞内微电极技术研究了ＡＴＰ－敏感性钾（Ｋ_（ＡＴＰ））通道和内皮素（ｅｎｄｏｔｈｅｌｉｎ,ＥＴ）在缺氧所致窦房结起搏细胞负性频率中的作用,主要结果如下：（１）缺氧引起窦房结起搏细胞的ＲＰＦ降低和ＡＰＤ缩短,这一效应随时间延长而加重。（２）Ｋ_（ＡＴＰ）通道开放剂ｃｒｏｍａｋａｌｉｍ浓度依赖性地对窦房结起搏细胞有负性频率作用,且明显缩短ＡＰＤ_（５０）。该通道的阻断剂格列苯脲能部分阻断缺氧对起搏细胞的上述效应,表明缺氧效应中有Ｋ_（ＡＴＰ）通道的参与。（３）ＥＴ－１可显著加重缺氧所致的ＲＰＦ降低,使起搏细胞停跳时间前移;而以ＥＴ_Ａ受体阻断剂ＢＱ－１２３预处理窦房结标本后,则能有效地缓解缺氧对起搏细胞的效应,提示内源性ＥＴ－１的释放在缺氧效应中的作用。上述结果表明,缺氧所致起搏细胞的负性频率作用和ＡＰＤ缩短,与Ｋ_（ＡＴＰ）通道的激活和内源性ＥＴ－１的释放有关。     

Effect of uncoupling treatments on FSH-induced hyperpolarization of immature rat Sertoli cells from Sertoli cell-enriched cultures

Sertoli cell-enriched cultures isolated from immature rat testes by enzymic treatments were investigated by intracellular microelectrode recordings. The hyperpolarization of cells induced by FSH was independent of the age of the rats (7-37 days) and was unchanged by exposure to a hormone-free medium or to a glycine buffer of pH 3. It was reduced by treatments which decreased the electrical coupling between cells either by an increase of intracellular calcium [i.e. calcium ionophore (A 23187, 5 x 10(-6) M), general anaesthetic (heptanol, 3.5 mM) and uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylations (carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone-CCmP, 10(-6) M)] or by a decrease of extracellular calcium [i.e. 0Ca + EGTA (1 mM) medium]. These effects were partly or totally reversed by a recovery period in a drug-free medium. Similar results were obtained by an exposure to trypsin (0.05%) followed by a second mechanical dispersion, but new cell hyperpolarization was induced by a new exposure to FSH. This electrophysiological study suggests an initial effect of FSH on the junctional complex between Sertoli cells, then the control by calcium of this complex.     

Delta sleep-inducing peptide as a modulator of mediators acting on the heart

Experiments on 51 isolated rabbit hearts have documented, that delta sleep-inducing peptide (6 X 10(-6) M/l) has a modulating effect on the mediators influencing the heart. This peptide enhances negative chronotropic effect of acetylcholine (1 X 10(-6) M/l) and decreases positive chronotropic effect of noradrenaline (1 X 10(-6) M/l). Such effect may be one of mechanisms of changes in the extracardiac regulation on the heart influenced by this peptide.     

Effects of C-type natriuretic peptide on ionic currents in mouse sinoatrial node: a role for the NPR-C receptor

The effects of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) on heart rate and ionic currents were demonstrated by recording the ECG from adult mice and performing voltage-clamp experiments on single sinoatrial (SA) node cells isolated from mouse heart. The selective natriuretic peptide type C receptor (NPR-C) agonist cANF (10(-7) M) significantly decreased heart rate in the presence of isoproterenol (5 x 10(-9) M), as indicated by an increase in the R-R interval of ECGs obtained from Langendorff-perfused hearts. Voltage-clamp measurements in enzymatically isolated single pacemaker myocytes revealed that CNP (10(-8) M) and cANF (10(-8) M) significantly inhibited L-type Ca2+ current [ICa(L)]. These findings suggest that the CNP effect on this current is mediated by NPR-C. Further support for an NPR-C-mediated inhibition of ICa(L) in SA node myocytes was obtained by altering the functional coupling between the G protein Gi and NPR-C. In these experiments, a "Gi-activator peptide," which consists of a 17-amino acid segment of NPR-C containing a specific Gi protein-activator sequence, was dialyzed into SA node myocytes. This peptide decreased ICa(L) significantly, suggesting that NPR-C activation can result in a reduction in ICa(L) when CNP is bound and the Gi protein pathway is activated. This effect of CNP appears to be selective for ICa(L), because the hyperpolarization-activated current was unaffected by CNP or cANF. These results provide the first demonstration that CNP has a negative chronotropic effect on heart rate and suggest that this effect is mediated by selectively activating NPR-C and reducing ICa(L) through coupling to Gi protein.     

Acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase activity in the atria of the heart of adult albino rats

In experiments on adult albino rats the authors used the substances BW 284 C51 (1.5-bis(allyldimethylammoniumphenyl)-pentane-3-one-dibromide) as a specific inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and ethopropazine (10-(2-diethylaminopropyl) phenothiazine hydrochloride) as a specific inhibitor of butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) to determine the two enzyme activities in atrial homogenates and to investigate changes after AChE or BuChE inhibition of the negative chronotropic effect of acetylcholine (ACh) on atria incubated in vitro. AChE accounted for only 12% and BuChE for 88% of the total ability of atrial homogenates to hydrolyse acetylcholine. The concentration of exogenous ACh needed to reduce the spontaneous frequency of contractions of the isolated right atrium by 30, 60, or 90/min fell by 78%, 79% and 84% respectively after BW 284 C51 inhibition of AChE and by 95%, 94% and 94% after simultaneous inhibition of AChE and BuChE. The significance of AChE in control of the negative chronotropic effect of ACh is thus evidently significantly greater than would correspond to the percentual proportion of AChE in cholinesterase activities in the atria of the rat heart. In can be assumed that AChE is functionally associated with parasympathetic innervation of the heart and that it is probably present in a high concentration in the primary pacemaker region.     

Action of pilocarpine on the normal frog heart and in pathology

Experiments on frogs were performed to examine the effect of the M-cholinomimetic pilocarpine on the heart. It was discovered that at concentrations of 10(-15)--10(-5) g/ml pilocarpine exerted only an adverse chronotropic effect on the perfused heart. When applied at a concentration of 10(-4) g/ml the drug produced a negative as well as a positive chronotropic effect. The latter occurred spasmodically (without progressive rise in the heart rate) in association with a slow heart rate. In some experiments such effects were preceded by a certain deceleration of the heart. In experiments with positive chronotropic effects, arrhythmias and sinoatrial dissociation were observed sometimes. Experiments with recording of the electrograms of the sinuses and lower parts showed that such effects were caused not by pacemaker acceleration but by the removal of the blockade of conduction, between the pacemaker and the atria. As far as the pacemaker is concerned, pilocarpine exerted only a negative chronotropic effect.     

Interaction of clonidine with chronotropic agents on isolated right atria

Clonidine was administered to isolated guinea pig right atria in order to characterize its chronotropic activity and its interaction with other chronotropic agents at the postjunctional level. Clonidine either had no significant effect (10(-7)--10(-4) M) or decreased (10(-3) M) atrial rate. Pretreatment of the atria with clonidine noncompetitively antagonized (10(-6)--10(-4) M) the positive chronotropic actions of isoproterenol, and competitively antagonized (10(-4) M) the negative chronotropic actions of pilocarpine. At doses of 10(-6) or 3 X 10(-6) M, clonidine also noncompetitively antagonized the positive chronotropic effects of 4-methylhistamine and glucagon. The results show that clonidine antagonizes both adrenergic and cholinergic influences on atrial rate at the postjunctional level and suggest that the antagonism of adrenergic influences does not involve a direct interaction with beta-adrenergic receptors.     

高钙对兔窦房结的负性变时作用

本文采用常规微电极技术在离体兔心窦房结标本上研究了细胞外钙离子浓度([Ca~(2 )]_0)对窦房结的变时性作用。结果显示,[Ca~(2 )]_0的递增(1.1—5.5mM),对窦性周期(CL)大于400ms 的标本引起双相变时作用,但对CL小于400ms的标本却引起负性变时作用。阿托品(0.5mg/l)和心得安(0.2mg/l)对[Ca~(2 )]_0 的变时作用无明显影响。随着[Ca~(2 )]_0的递增,窦房结优势起搏细胞的动作电位幅度、最大舒张期电位和0期最大除极速度均降低,舒张期自动除极化斜率增加,起始电位上移,动作电位时程(APD)延长。高[Ca~(2 )]_0时窦房结起搏细胞的有效不应期(ERP)延长、ERP/APD增大,ERP点的阈值提高(P<0.01)。 上述结果表明,高[Ca~(2 )]_0引起窦房结的负性变时效应,这种作用不是通过交感和副交感神经的传递,而可能是 Ca~(2 )直接作用于窦房结起搏细胞引起其电活动改变的结果。     

Bradykinin induced a positive chronotropic effect via stimulation of T- and L-type calcium currents in heart cells

Using Fluo-3 calcium dye confocal microscopy and spontaneously contracting embryonic chick heart cells, bradykinin (10(-10) M) was found to induce positive chronotropic effects by increasing the frequency of the transient increase of cytosolic and nuclear free Ca2+. Pretreatment of the cells with either B1 or B2 receptor antagonists (R126 and R817, respectively) completely prevented bradykinin (BK) induced positive chronotropic effects on spontaneously contracting single heart cells. Using the whole-cell voltage clamp technique and ionic substitution to separate the different ionic current species, our results showed that BK (10(-6) M) had no effect on fast Na+ inward current and delayed outward potassium current. However, both L- and T-type Ca2+ currents were found to be increased by BK in a dose-dependent manner (10(-10)-10(-7) M). The effects of BK on T- and L-type Ca2+ currents were partially blocked by the B1 receptor antagonist [Leu8]des-Arg9-BK (R592) (10(-7) M) and completely reversed by the B2 receptor antagonist D-Arg[Hyp3,D-Phe7,Leu8]BK (R-588) (10(-7) M) or pretreatment with pertussis toxin (PTX). These results demonstrate that BK induced a positive chronotropic effect via stimulation of T- and L-type Ca2+ currents in heart cells mainly via stimulation of B2 receptor coupled to PTX-sensitive G-proteins. The increase of both types of Ca2+ current by BK in heart cells may explain the positive inotropic and chronotropic effects of this hormone.     

雌二醇对家兔窦房结自律细胞的电生理学效应

本文旨在探讨雌二醇（17β-estradiol）对家兔窦房结自律细胞的电生理学效应及其作用机制。应用经典的细胞内玻璃微电极技术观察不同浓度雌二醇（1,10,100μmol／L）对家兔窦房结自律细胞动作电位的影响。结果显示：（1）雌二醇浓度依赖性地延长窦房结自律细胞动作电位复极化50％时间（APD50）和动作电位复极化90％时间（APD50）,降低窦房结自律细胞动作电位0期最大除极速率（Vmax）、动作电位幅值（amplitude of action potential,APA）,降低窦房结自律细胞放电频率（rate of pacemaker firing,RPF）、舒张期（4相）自动去极化速率[velocity of diastolic（phase4）depolarization,VDD]：而雌二醇对窦房结自律细胞的最大舒张电位（maximal diastolic potential,MDP）无明显影响。（2）雌激素受体阻断剂他莫昔芬（10μmol／L）不能阻断雌二醇（10μmol／L）对窦房结自律细胞动作电位的抑制效应。（3）一氧化氮合酶抑制剂L—NAME（100μmol／L）可完全阻断雌二醇（10μmol／L）对窦房结自律细胞动作电位的抑制效应。结果提示,雌二醇对家兔窦房结自律细胞的电生理活动具有明显的抑制作用,此作用可能是通过非基因组机制发挥,与一氧化氮作用有关。     

Inhibition of mitogen-stimulated T lymphocyte proliferation by calcitonin gene-related peptide

The effect of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) on mouse lymphocyte proliferation stimulated by mitogens was studied. CGRP (10(-10)-10(-7) M) dose-dependently inhibited the proliferative response of mouse lymph node cells and spleen cells stimulated by T cell mitogens concanavalin A (Con A) and phytohemagglutinin (PHA), whereas a B cell mitogen lipopolysaccharide (LPS) did not inhibit this response. The maximal inhibition by this peptide was 50% to 80% at 10(-8) and 10(-7) M. The addition of 10(-8) and 10(-7) M CGRP to lymph node cell cultures 24 hr after stimulation with Con A or PHA also had a significant inhibitory effect on the proliferative response. Furthermore, in the same concentration range (10(-10)-10(-7) M) CGRP increased intracellular cyclic AMP concentration in nylon wool nonadherent cells, but not in nylon wool adherent cells. CGRP had no significant effect on intracellular cyclic GMP concentration. In addition, specific binding of CGRP was observed in mouse spleen cells. Our present study suggests that CGRP inhibits the proliferative response of T lymphocytes to the mitogens by interacting with cell receptors coupled with adenylate cyclase. CGRP may be implicated in the regulation of T cell function.     

Bombesin potentiates the effect of acetylcholine on isolated strips of fish stomach.

The interaction between bombesin and acetylcholine acting on smooth muscle of the stomach wall was investigated in two species of teleost fish. Oncorhynchus mykiss (rainbow trout) and Gadus morhua (Atlantic cod). Acetylcholine or bombesin alone has an excitatory effect on the stomach muscle. The effect on contraction amplitude of acetylcholine (10(-6)-10(-5) M) alone is about 10-times greater than the effect of bombesin (10(-9)-10(-7) M). In molar terms however, bombesin is more potent than acetylcholine. Bombesin (10(-8)-10(-7) M) added 0.5-3 min prior to acetylcholine potentiates the effect of acetylcholine in a dose-dependent manner. The potentiation is most pronounced in circular muscle preparations, but is present also in longitudinal muscle preparations. Bombesin affects the response to carbachol (10(-6) M) with a similar potentiation, indicating that the potentiation is not caused by inhibition of choline esterase activity. Atropine (10(-6)-10(-5) M) abolishes the response to bombesin plus acetylcholine as well as the response to acetylcholine alone. Tetrodotoxin (10(-6) M) does not block the effect of acetylcholine, bombesin or the combination acetylcholine plus bombesin. Substance P (10(-9)-10(-7) M) which has a similar excitatory effect on the stomach muscle as bombesin, does not potentiate the effect of acetylcholine. Immunohistochemistry has shown the presence of strong bombesin-like immunoreactivity in stomach nerves of the cod and weak bombesin-like immunoreactivity in rainbow trout nerves. In addition, bombesin-like immunoreactivity was demonstrated in endocrine cells in the gastric and intestinal mucosa of both species. It is concluded that bombesin, contained either in nerve fibres or in mucosal endocrine cells, specifically potentiates the effect of acetylcholine in the fish stomach.     

Bioelectrical analysis of the regulatory interaction of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous influences on the heart rhythm]

The changes of chronotropic effect on the isolated sinus node of the frog heart were studied during the separate and simultaneous stimulation of the sympathetic and intracardiac reflex parasympathetic pathways. Intracellular activity of the pacemaker cells was recorded. The separate stimulation of the intracardiac reflex system resulted in bradycardia (in winter) or tachycardia (in summer). Stimulation of sympathetic chain supervening the activation of the intracardiac pathways induced an intensification of both the parasympathetic bradycardia and tachycardia; these effects were cholinergic in nature. The recording of the intracellular pacemaker activity showed the existence of the complicated interaction between the sympathetic and parasympathetic pulse-mediator actions on the heart pacemaker both on the prepulase process and on the membrane polarization and other action potential parameters. Possible mechanisms of this interaction are discussed.     

Autonomic transmitter actions on cardiac pacemaker tissue: a brief review

Application of the voltage clamp technique to cardiac primary pacemaker tissue has yielded sufficiently detailed information that a qualitative model of the pacemaker response can now be formulated. One important difference between the generation of spontaneous activity in sinus tissue, and in the Purkinje fiber, appears to be the involvement of the slow inward current, Isi, in the sinus pacemaker depolarization. The voltage clamp results also demonstrate the importance of the Isi in the chronotropic responses of pacemaker tissue. Epinephrine has been shown to increase Isi in rabbit sinoatrial node, and there is indirect evidence that acetylcholine may reduce Isi in reptilian sinus venosus. Additional, more quantitative data are essential, however, before cardiac primary pacemaker activity and its modulation by the autonomic transmitters can be fully understood.     

辣椒素对家兔房室结细胞自发活动的电生理效应

本工作旨在研究辣椒素对家兔房室结细胞自发活动的电生理效应及其作用机制.应用经典玻璃微电极记录方法,观察到辣椒素(1～30 μmol/L)剂量依赖性地抑制房室结起搏细胞的动作电位幅度,零相最大上升速度(Vmax),舒张期除极速度和起搏放电频率,而且延长复极化90%时间(APD90).应用L型钙通道开放剂Bay K8644(0.5 μmol/L),以及提高灌流液中钙离子浓度(5 mmol/L),均可抑制辣椒素对起搏细胞的电生理效应.辣椒素受体阻断剂钌红(10μmol/L)对辣椒素(10μmol/L)的上述电生理效应并无影响.上述结果表明,辣椒素能抑制家兔房室结的自发活动,此效应可能与其抑制钙离子内流有关,但并非由辣椒素受体介导.     

Species differences in the negative inotropic effect of acetylcholine and soman in rat, guinea pig, and rabbit hearts.

1. Acetylcholine reduced atrial contractions by 82.5% in guinea pig, 50.8% in rat, and 41.5% in rabbit. 2. The EC50 values for the negative inotropic effect of acetylcholine were 3.3 x 10(-7) M in rat and guinea pig atria and 4.1 x 10(-6) M in rabbit atria. 3. There was no correlation between the species differences in the negative inotropic effect of acetylcholine in atria and the density or affinity of acetylcholinesterase or muscarinic receptors. 4. Inhibition of atrial acetylcholinesterase with soman reduced the EC50 of acetylcholine three-fold in all species, but did not change the maximal inotropic effect of acetylcholine. 5. Species differences in the negative inotropic effect of acetylcholine may be caused by differences in the coupling between myocardial muscarinic receptors and the ion channels that mediate negative inotropy.     

The effect of substance P on the regional lymph node antibody response to antigenic stimulation in capsaicin-pretreated rats

The undecapeptide substance P (SP) contained in primary afferent nerves is thought to mediate that part of the neurogenic inflammatory response consisting of vasodilation and plasma extravasation. This response is diminished in rats pretreated as neonates with the neurotoxin capsaicin. It is not known whether primary afferent nerves influence cellular responses of the immune response to antigenic stimulation. Using 6- to 12-wk-old Sprague-Dawley rats pretreated as neonates with capsaicin, we examined the regional lymph node response to a s.c. antigenic stimulus of sheep red blood cells. The number of cells secreting antigen-specific antibody in these animals was reduced by more than 80% using direct and indirect plaque assay methods. The reduced antibody response in capsaicin-pretreated animals was reversed by a s.c. infusion of SP given over a 4-hr period at the injection site immediately after antigen stimulation. This response had a threshold at approximately 1.0 X 10(-5) M SP. SP1-7 (1.0 X 10(-5) M) was without effect but an infusion of SP5-11 (1.0 X 10(-5) M) reversed the effects of capsaicin treatment indicating a carboxyl-terminal effect of SP. The results suggest that the reduced response of capsaicin-treated animals to an antigenic stimulus is due to an effect of capsaicin on the SP-containing primary afferent nerves rather than a toxic effect of capsaicin on the immune system.