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Hohl, C.M. et al.

Calcium handling by sarcoplasmic reticulum of neonatal swine cardiac myocytes.

In recent years, because of similarities to human infants, neonatal piglets have increasingly become the model of choice for studying neonatal heart function. However, the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) has not been thoroughly characterized in this species. Accordingly, Ca2+ pump kinetics, efflux channel characteristics, Ca2+ transients, and contractile movements were examined in isolated newborn piglet cardiac ventricular myocytes. Maximum uptake rate (Vmax) and concentration required to produce a half-maximal effect (K0.5) for oxalate-supported, ATP-dependent 45Ca2+ uptake by the SR of digitonin-lysed myocytes were 285 +/- 17 nmol 45Ca2+.min-1.mg-1 and 0.69 +/- 0.07 microM, respectively. In the absence of phospholamban phosphorylation, Vmax was reduced to 195 +/- 26 nmol 45Ca2+.min-1.mg-1 (P < 0.05 vs. control) and K0.5 increased to 1.28 +/- 0.13 microM (P < 0.05 vs. control). [3H]ryanodine binding studies yielded a maximum binding capacity of 181 +/- 12 fmol/mg and a dissociation constant of 1.7 +/- 0.2 nM. Raising extracellular Ca2+ (0.5-5 mM) increased peak amplitude and decreased the duration of electrically stimulated fura 2 Ca2+ transients and recordings of cell length changes. Both ryanodine and 2,5-di-tert-butylhydroquinone, an inhibitor of SR calcium adenosinetriphosphatase, completely abolished Ca2+ transients in piglet myocytes. These studies indicate that the SR has a significant role in excitation-contraction coupling in neonatal piglet myocytes.[1]

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Calcium handling by sarcoplasmic reticulum of neonatal swine cardiac myocytes. Hohl, C.M., Livingston, B., Hensley, J., Altschuld, R.A. Am. J. Physiol. (1997) [Pubmed]

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