Na+/Ca2+ exchange activity in neonatal rabbit ventricular myocytes |
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Authors: | Huang Jingbo Hove-Madsen Leif Tibbits Glen F |
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Institution: | Cardiac Membrane Research Laboratory, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. |
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Abstract: | Much less is known about the contributions of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ pump to cell relaxation in neonatal compared with adult mammalian ventricular myocytes. Based on both biochemical and molecular studies, there is evidence of a much higher density of NCX at birth that subsequently decreases during the next 2 wk of development. It has been hypothesized, therefore, that NCX plays a relatively more important role for cytosolic Ca2+ decline in neonates as well as, perhaps, a role in excitation-contraction coupling in reverse mode. We isolated neonatal ventricular myocytes from rabbits in four different age groups: 3, 6, 10, and 20 days of age. Using an amphotericin-perforated patch-clamp technique in fluo-3-loaded myocytes, we measured the caffeine-induced inward NCX current (INCX) and the Ca2+ transient. We found that the integral of INCX, an indicator of SR Ca2+ content, was greatest in myocytes from younger age groups when normalized by cell surface area and that it decreased with age. The velocity of Ca2+ extrusion by NCX (VNCX) was linear with Ca2+] and did not indicate saturation kinetics until Ca2+] reached 13 µM for each age group. There was a significantly greater time delay between the peaks of INCX and the Ca2+ transient in myocytes from the youngest age groups. This observation could be related to structural differences in the subsarcolemmal microdomains as a function of age. ontogeny of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling; sodium/calcium exchanger; cytosolic calcium concentration; subsarcolemmal calcium concentration; sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium content |
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