AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 247, Issue 6 909-H915, Copyright © 1984 by American Physiological Society

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Coordination of cardiac myofibrillar and sarcotubular activities in rats exercised by swimming

E. D. Pagani and R. J. Solaro

We measured the functional activity of both myofibrils and fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (FSR) in microsomal fractions and homogenates of hearts of sedentary rats and rats exercised by swimming 75 min twice daily for 8 wk. Ca2+ transport was measured under conditions that restricted uptake of Ca2+ to the SR vesicles in the homogenates or microsomal fractions. There was a significant increase in myosin Ca2+-ATPase activity of myofibrils prepared from hearts of swimmers, indicating that a "training effect" had occurred. The mean rate of Ca2+ transport and mean storage capacity were the same for SR vesicles in the homogenates and microsomal fractions from hearts of controls and swimmers. At the same free Ca2+ concentration, the velocity of Ca2+ transport by FSR in homogenate preparations was inversely related to the myofibrillar ATPase activity in a series of preparations from hearts of swimmers, but there was little correlation between the same activities measured in preparations from a series of sedentary rats. Our results suggest that the increase in the rate of relaxation of hearts from exercised rats is not due to an increase in the rate of Ca2+ transport by the SR but may be due to other factors, which include an increase in the rate of cross-bridge cycling or an alteration in the relation and coordination between cross-bridge cycling and SR Ca2+ transport activity.

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