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Editorial

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ and Heart Failure

Roles of Diastolic Leak and Ca2+ Transport

Donald M. Bers, David A. Eisner, Héctor H. Valdivia

From the Department of Physiology (D.M.B.), Loyola University Chicago, Maywood Ill; Department of Medicine (D.A.E.), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; and Department of Physiology (H.H.V.), University of Wisconsin, Madison Wis.

Correspondence to Donald M. Bers, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, 2160 S First Ave, Maywood, IL 60153. E-mail dbers@lumc.edu; and Héctor H. Valdivia, Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. E-mail valdivia@physiology.wisc.edu


Key Words: heart failure • ryanodine receptors • calcium sparks


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Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of death and enormous effort has focused at understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the decreased cardiac contractility. While changes of other components contribute, it is generally agreed that much of the contractile deficit is due to reduced myocyte Ca2+ transients.1,2 Alterations in Ca2+ current (ICa) and action potential characteristics are also seen in HF, but a central factor limiting Ca2+ transient amplitude is a decrease of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ content.3–6 HF is extremely complex, but it is easy to appreciate how reduced SR Ca2+ content would reduce SR Ca2+ release, myofilament activation, and contractility. Despite agreement that SR Ca2+ content is reduced in HF, controversy exists about why SR content is low.

How Is SR Ca2+ Content Decreased in Heart Failure?

SR Ca2+ content reflects the balance between Ca2+ uptake (via SERCA) and Ca2+ efflux via ryanodine receptor (RyR). Thus, reduced SR content in HF must be due to reduced Ca2+ pumping by SERCA or increased SR Ca2+ leak via RyRs. Both are supported by experimental data (below). Transsarcolemmal Ca2+ fluxes also affect SR Ca2+ load. That is, reduced Ca2+ influx (eg, via ICa) or enhanced Ca2+ extrusion via Na+-Ca2+ exchange (NCX) can unload the SR. Results are not unanimous, but most groups find little alteration in peak ICa density in HF, while many find evidence of enhanced NCX expression and function.1,2 Increased NCX function can compete with SERCA during [Ca2+]i decline, extruding more Ca2+ from the cell and depleting the SR. In the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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