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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 273: H796-H804, 1997;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 2 796-H804, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Ryanodine receptor dysfunction in porcine stunned myocardium

C. Valdivia, J. O. Hegge, R. D. Lasley, H. H. Valdivia and R. Mentzer
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison 53792, USA.

We investigated the effects of myocardial stunning on the function of the two main Ca2+ transport proteins of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), the Ca(2+)-adenosinetriphosphatase and the Ca(2+)-release channel or ryanodine receptor. Regional myocardial stunning was induced in open-chest pigs (n = 6) by a 10-min occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) and 2 h reperfusion. SR vesicles isolated from the LAD-perfused region (stunned) and the normal left circumflex coronary artery (LC)-perfused region were used to assess the oxalate-supported 45Ca2+ uptake, [3H]ryanodine binding, and single-channel recordings of ryanodine-sensitive Ca(2+)-release channels in planar lipid bilayers. Myocardial stunning decreased LAD systolic wall thickening to 20% of preischemic values. The rate of SR 45Ca2+ uptake in the stunned LAD bed was reduced by 37% compared with that of the normal LC bed (P < 0.05). Stunning was also associated with a 38% reduction in the maximal density of high-affinity [3H]ryanodine binding sites (P < 0.05 vs. normal LC) but had no effect on the dissociation constant. The open probability of ryanodine-sensitive Ca(2+)-release channels determined by single channel recordings in planar lipid bilayers was 26 +/- 2% for control SR (n = 33 channels from 3 animals) and 14 +/- 2% for stunned SR (n = 21 channels; P < 0.05). This depressed activity of SR function observed in postischemic myocardium could be one of the mechanisms underlying myocardial stunning.


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