Summary This study compares the action of inhibitors of the eicosanoid cascade on calcium-induced myofilament damage in cardiac muscle of the perfused frog heart and incubated frog ventricle slices, and in skeletal muscle of incubated mammalian diaphragm and isolated and saponin-skinned amphibian pectoris cutaneous muscle. Mepacrine (10-5M) and indomethacin (3×10-6M) protected completely against myofilament damage induced by entry of calcium in the calcium-paradox in frog heart. However, inhibition of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) (with chlorpromazine, 2×10-4M, or mepacrine, 10-5M, 5x10-5M), of cyclo-oxygenase enzymes (with indomethacin, 3x10-6M to 10-5M or BW755C, 3.8x10-4M), or of lipoxygenase enzymes (with BW755C, 3.8x10-4M or nordihydroguaiaretic acid, 2x10-6M or 5x10-6M) all failed in intact cardiac or skeletal muscle cells to prevent the myofilament damage that is rapidly triggered by 10-2M caffeine, 6x10-6M ruthenium red, 10-4M DNP or 5 g ml-1 A23187. These agents also failed completely to protect against myofilament damage in saponin-skinned amphibian skeletal muscle when [Ca]i was raised to 8x10-6M. Thus, inhibition of PLA2 does not protect the myofilament apparatus against calcium released intracellularly, and it is suggested that mepacrine and indomethacin can block entry of calcium in the calcium-paradox in the amphibian heart. Chlorpromazine (2x10-4M) and mepacrine (10-3M) at zero [Ca] caused severe myofilament damage in skinned muscle, possibly due to an effect on membranes. Since inhibitors of PLA2 and of lipoxygenases prevent efflux of creatine kinase and sarcolemma damage in mammalian skeletal muscle, it is evident that experimentally-induced rises in [Ca]i (by caffeine or A23187) can trigger two separate pathways: (i) PLA2 and the arachidonic acid cascade which culminate in membrane damage, and (ii) a different, Ca-activated system that causes rapid damage of myofilaments. 相似文献
Summary In the heart of the adult rat, fibroblasts are mainly responsible for the synthesis and deposition of the collagenous matrix. Because these cells in vitro may serve as an important model system for studies of collagen metabolism in heart tissue, we have cultured and characterized rat-heart fibroblasts from young adult and old animals. Conditions included use of media of different compositions with and without addition of ascorbate. Cell used were either cultured directly from fresh tissues or thawed previously frozen cells. Cultured cells were studied with respect to growth properties, morphology and ultrastructure and patterns of collagen. Heart fibroblasts generally resembled fibroblasts cultured from other tissues, but were more like skeletal muscle fibroblasts in that they deposited, in addition to type I collagen, type IV collagen and laminin. The fibroblasts showed a typical appearance in phase-contrast microscopy and electron microscopy. In the case of cells grown with added ascorbate, aligned collagen fibrils in the extracellular matrix showed a periodicity typical of type I collagen. The deposition of type I collagen occurred only in medium supplemented with ascorbate, and in that circumstance increased as a function of time past confluence; this was independent of the age of the animal from which the cells were obtained or of other changes of medium composition studied. Immunofluorescence studies with specific antibodies revealed that the cells deposited types I and IV collagens, laminin and fibronectin. In contrast to the case of type I collagen, the deposition of type IV collagen occurred in cells grown either with or without ascorbate. Direct observation of type IV collagen is consistent with the previous finding of type IV mRNA in cardiac fibroblasts in situ and in freshly isolated populations of these cells. 相似文献
Myocardial sodium-pump activity was examined from ouabain-sensitive 86Rb+ uptake using myocytes isolated from guinea-pig heart. Either sodium loading or the sodium ionophore, monensin, increased 86Rb+ uptake by over 400%, indicating that the amount of Na+ available to the pump is the primary determinant of its activity, and that the sodium pump has a substantial reserve capacity in quiescent myocytes. Moreover, the degree of the above stimulation is markedly higher than corresponding values reported with multicellular preparations, suggesting that diffusion barriers make it impossible to observe the capacity of the sodium pump in the latter preparations. Removal of extracellular Ca2+ increased ouabain-sensitive 86Rb+ uptake, probably by enhancing turnover of the sodium pump rather than increasing availability of Na+ to the pump. 相似文献
A mouse model for the "sudden death" and "malarial lung" syndromes is described. Mice of the C3H/z strain succumb suddenly approximately 7 days after an infection with Plasmodium berghei becomes patent, at a time when parasitemia is still moderate (6 to 8%). Death could be shown to be due to anaphylactoid shock, probably induced by soluble immune complexes. Increased vascular permeability caused transudation and leakage of serum proteins into the interstitium and the alveoli. The lungs were found to be edematous, with a fine granular precipitate in the alveoli and adherent to the vascular walls. The precipitates reacted with antiglobulins G and M, and could be shown to also contain malaria antigens and C3/4. A dramatic drop in hematocrit was recorded several hours before death, indicating the sudden release of malaria antigens. The myocardium of animals that had died very suddenly showed a patchy loss of phosphorylase activity. This loss of activity was much more extensive, and sometimes almost total, when there had been an agonal period of several (1 to 3) hours before death. In these cases the irreversibility of the myocardial damage was also indicated by the loss of activity of the dehydrogenases, as well as by typical inflammatory reactions of granulocytic and histiocytic infiltrations. The hearts thus presented a typical picture of the acute and peracute shock syndromes. In acute shock cardiac insufficiency develops so suddenly that death ensues before irreversible damage has occurred, and cardiac insufficiency can only be demonstrated by the most sensitive of enzyme histochemical means. In the present case shock was induced by the anaphylactoid activity of immune complexes with the lung as target organ. The described syndrome appears analogous to human "malarial lung." 相似文献
17β-estradiol propionate was found to reduce the gap junctional communication in a concentration range similar to that of
testosterone propionate, in primary cultures of rat Sertoli cells and cardiac myocytes. Uncoupling was reversible on washing
out and occurred without concomitant rise in the intracellular calcium concentration.
Esterification was a prerequisite for the activity of extracellularly applied steroid compounds (for example, testosterone
was ineffective even at external concentrations up to 100 μm, whereas its intracellular application at 1 μm totally interrupted intercellular communication), but their uncoupling efficiency did not depend on the nature of the ester
chain nor on its position on the steroid nucleus. The derivatives of two other androgen hormones (derivatives of the androstane
nucleus) were also efficient as junctional uncouplers. Among five steroid molecules belonging to the pregnane family, only
one (pregnanediol diacetate) interrupted the junctional communication. Neither cholic acid nor cholesteryl acetate or ouabain
showed this effect. Altogether, no correlation with the presence or position of double bonds nor with the trans- or cis-fusion of the A and B rings could be recognized.
These results suggest that this reversible, nondeleterious uncoupling effect of steroids is independent of the shape of the
molecules and is more probably related to their size and liposolubility, that condition their insertion into the lipid bilayer.
Their incorporation into the membrane could disturb the activity of the membrane proteins by a physical mechanism.
Received: 10 April 1995/Revised: 27 October 1995 相似文献
Abstract: [3H]Ryanodine binding to, as well as functions of, ryanodine receptor intracellular Ca2+ release channel complexes are modulated by several adenosine-based compounds. In this study, we determined the effects of endogenous compounds termed diadenosine polyphosphates (ApnAs; n = 2–6 phosphate groups) on [3H]ryanodine binding to membranes prepared from rat brain and skeletal and cardiac muscle. Under low ionic strength buffer conditions, [3H]ryanodine binding to brain membranes was significantly increased by 171% with 333 µMP1,P5-di(adenosine-5′) pentaphosphate (Ap5A) and by 209% with the same concentration of the metabolism-resistant ATP analogue βγ-methyleneadenosine 5′-triphosphate (AMP-PCP) compared with control values for [3H]ryanodine binding of 9.6 ± 1.8 fmol/mg of protein. Dose-related increases in [3H]ryanodine binding were observed for all five ApnAs tested [P1,P2-di(adenosine-5′) pyrophosphate (Ap2A), P1,P3-di(adenosine-5′) triphosphate (Ap3A), P1,P4-di(adenosine-5′) tetraphosphate (Ap4A), Ap5A, and P1,P6-di(adenosine-5′) hexaphosphate (Ap6A)] as well as AMP-PCP; oxidized salts of ApnAs stimulated [3H]ryanodine binding to a greater degree than did nonoxidized ApnAs. The apparent rank order for the capacity of these agents to increase [3H]-ryanodine binding was oxidized Ap4A = oxidized Ap5A > oxidized Ap3A > Ap6A > AMP-PCP > Ap5A > Ap2A. Addition of the approximate EC50 dose of oxidized Ap4A (37 µM) increased the affinity (KD) of ryanodine receptors from 34 ± 7 to 12 ± 2 nM; the apparent binding site density (Bmax) was not significantly different from control values of 107 ± 33 fmol/mg of protein. Increases in [3H]-ryanodine binding by either oxidized Ap4A or nonoxidized Ap5A were not further enhanced by coincubation with AMP-PCP, which suggests a similar site of action for the ApnAs and AMP-PCP. [3H]Ryanodine binding to skeletal and cardiac muscle membranes was enhanced by addition of oxidized Ap4A, Ap5A, and AMP-PCP. Oxidized Ap4A increased the specific binding by ninefold in skeletal muscle and by threefold in cardiac muscle. These results suggest that ApnAs, at physiologically relevant concentrations, may serve as endogenous modulators of ryanodine receptor-gated Ca2+ release channels. 相似文献
Calcium-release channels of sheep cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum were incorporated into phosphatidylethanolamine bilayers and single channel currents were recorded under voltage-clamp conditions. The effect of adenosine on single channel conductance and gating was investigated, as were the interactions between adenosine and caffeine and adenosine and ,-methylene ATP.Addition of adenosine (0.5–5 mm) to the cytosolic but not the luminal side of the membrane increased the open probability of single calcium-activated calcium-release channels by increasing the frequency and duration of open events, yielding an EC50 of 0.75 mm at 10 m activating Ca2+.Addition of 1 mm caffeine potentiated the effects of adenosine at 10 or 100 m-activating cytosolic calcium, but had no effect on the inability of adenosine to activate the channel at 80 pmcalcium, suggesting discrete sites of action on the calcium-release channel for adenosine and caffeine. In contrast, addition of 100 m ,-methylene-ATP decreased single channel open probability in the presence of adenosine, suggesting that these compounds act on the same site on the channel.Activation of single channel opening by adenosine, or by adenosine together with caffeine, had no effect on single channel conductance or the Ca2+/Tris+ permeability ratio. Channels activated by adenosine were characteristically modified by ryanodine and blocked by m ruthenium red or mm magnesium.These results show that adenosine activates the sheep cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-release channel by increasing the frequency and duration of open events in a Ca2+-dependent manner. The receptor site on the channel for adenosine is distinct from that for caffeine but probably the same as that for adenine nucleotides.This work was supported by the British Heart Foundation. 相似文献
Cl– conductance in cultured embryonic chick cardiac myocytes was characterized using whole-cell patch clamp techniques. Following elimination of cation currents in Na+and K+-free internal and external solutions, the basal whole-cell current was predominantly a Cl– current. Cl–-sensitive current (ICl) was defined as the difference between the whole-cell currents recorded in normal and low [Cl–]o when measured in the same cell. The whole-cell current in the absence or presence of 10 m cAMP was time independent, displayed outward rectification with the pipette [Cl–] < 40 mm, and was not saturated with a physiological Cl– gradient. The Cl– current was also activated by 1 m forskolin and inhibited by 0.3 mm anthracene-9-carboxylic acid (9-AC). Forskolin was less effective than cAMP (internal dialysis) in activating the Cl– current. The cAMP- or forskolin-activated and basal Cl– current were reasonably fit by the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation. The calculated PCl in the presence of cAMP was increased by fiveto sixfold over the basal level. In the presence of 5 mm EGTA to decrease free [Ca2+]i, the whole-cell current could not be stimulated by cAMP, forskolin or IBMX (0.1 mm). These data suggest that cultured chick cardiac myocytes have a low basal Cl– conductance, which, as in some mammalian cardiac ventricular myocytes, can be activated by cAMP. However, this study shows that the activation process requires physiological free [Ca2+]i.This study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (HL-17670, HL-27105 and HL-07107) for M.L. and by Institutional funds of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences for S.L.We thank Meei-Yueh Liu, Kathleen Mitchell, and Shirley Revels for their technical assistance. 相似文献
1. 1. Isolated cardiac myocytes of perch, Perca fluviatilis, were kept in culture conditions for 1–2 months at 12 or 22°C. In the culture most myocytes flattened, lost their spindle-shaped morphology, protruded pseudopod-like branches and many of them started visible contractions in 1–2 weeks and continued beating for several months. Myocytes did not divide in the sparse cell population used. Typical intracellular structures could be seen in electron micrographs still after 1–2 months, but the sarcoplasmic organization became gradually more irregular in the culture.
2. 2. Beat rates showed linear temperature relationship on the Arrhenius plot. Myocytes cultivated at 22°C showed higher frequencies and slightly less dependence on temperature than myocytes cultivated at 12°C (apparent activation energies (Ea) 86 and 107 kJ/mol, respectively).
3. 3. Temperature dependence of frequencies was related to the presence of added serum or adrenergic agonists: β-adrenergic agonists increased the frequencies and rendered the cells less dependent on temperature; apparent activation energy was 43 kJ/mol for isoprenaline or adrenaline and 108 kJ/mol for noradrenaline and control group.
4. 4. Heat tolerance was greater in myocytes cultivated at 22°C than in myocytes cultivated at 12°C, and the change in tolerance appeared in 12 h after the alteration of culture temperature and the increased tolerance was persistent after that.
5. 5. It is suggested, that the processes of quick heat-hardening and of slower but persistent heat resistance acclimation developed in these cells in culture conditions but not the capacity acclimation, which seems to be dependent on adrenergic regulation of beat rate.