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Mechanisms of Altered Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Canine Tachycardia-Induced Heart Failure, I

Experimental Studies

Brian O'Rourke, David A. Kass, Gordon F. Tomaselli, Stefan Kääb, Richard Tunin, Eduardo Marbán

From the Section of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Balti-more, Md.

Correspondence to Brian O'Rourke, PhD, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, 844 Ross Building, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205. E-mail bor{at}jhmi.edu

Abstract—Pacing-induced heart failure in the dog recapitulates many of the electrophysiological and hemodynamic abnormalities of the human disease; however, the mechanisms underlying altered Ca2+ handling have not been investigated in this model. We now show that left ventricular midmyocardial myocytes isolated from dogs subjected to 3 to 4 weeks of rapid pacing have prolonged action potentials and Ca2+ transients with reduced peaks, but durations {approx}3-fold longer than controls. To discriminate between action potential effects on Ca2+ kinetics and direct changes in Ca2+ regulatory processes, voltage-clamp steps were used to examine the time constant for cytosolic Ca2+ removal ({tau}Ca). {tau}Ca was prolonged by just 35% in myocytes from failing hearts after fixed voltage steps in physiological solutions ({tau}Ca control, 216±25 ms, n=17; {tau}Ca failing, 292±23 ms, n=22; P<0.05), but this difference was markedly accentuated when Na+/Ca2+ exchange was eliminated ({tau}Ca control, 282±30 ms, n=13; {tau}Ca failing, 576±83 ms, n=11; P<0.005). Impaired sarcoplasmic reticular (SR) Ca2+ uptake and a greater dependence on Na+/Ca2+ exchange for cytosolic Ca2+ removal was confirmed by inhibiting SR Ca2+ ATPase with cyclopiazonic acid, which slowed Ca2+ removal more in control than in failing myocytes. ß-Adrenergic stimulation of SR Ca2+ uptake in cells from failing hearts sufficed only to accelerate {tau}Ca to the range of unstimulated controls. Protein levels of SERCA2a, phospholamban, and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger revealed a pattern of changes qualitatively similar to the functional measurements; SERCA2a and phospholamban were both reduced in failing hearts by 28%, and Na+/Ca2+ exchange protein was increased 104% relative to controls. Thus, SR Ca2+ uptake is markedly downregulated in failing hearts, but this defect is partially compensated by enhanced Na+/Ca2+ exchange. The alterations are similar to those reported in human heart failure, which reinforces the utility of the pacing-induced dog model as a surrogate for the human disease.


Key Words: excitation-contraction coupling • action potential • sarcoplasmic reticulum • Ca2+ uptake • heart failure




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