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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Gene expression of stretch-activated channels and mechanoelectric feedback in the heart |
Author: | Kelly, D. Mackenzie, L. Hunter, P. Smaill, B. Saint, D. |
Citation: | Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 2006; 33(7):642-648 |
Part of: | Proceedings of the Australian Physiological Society (AHMRC) Symposium: Stretch Activated Ion Channels |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Asia |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
ISSN: | 0305-1870 1440-1681 |
Statement of Responsibility: | D Kelly, L Mackenzie, P Hunter, B Smaill and DA Saint |
Abstract: | 1. Mechanoelectric feedback (MEF) in the heart is the process by which mechanical forces on the myocardium can change its electrical properties. Mechanoelectric feedback has been demonstrated in many animal models, ranging from isolated cells, through isolated hearts to whole animals. In humans, MEF has been demonstrated directly in both the atria and the ventricles. It seems likely that MEF provides either the trigger or the substrate for some types of clinically important arrhythmias. 2. Mechanoelectric feedback may arise because of the presence of stretch-sensitive (or mechano-sensitive) ion channels in the cell membrane of the cardiac myocytes. Two types have been demonstrated: (i) a non-specific cation channel (stretch-activated channel (SAC); conductance of approximately 25 pS); and (ii) a potassium channel with a conductance of approximately 100 pS. The gene coding for the SAC has not yet been identified. The gene for the potassium channel is likely to be TREK, a member of the tandem pore potassium channel gene family. We have recorded stretch-sensitive potassium channels in rat isolated myocytes that have the properties of TREK channels expressed in heterologous systems. 3. It has been shown that TREK mRNA is expressed heterogeneously in the rat ventricular wall, with 17-fold more expression in endocardial compared with epicardial cells. This difference is reflected in the TREK currents recorded from endocardial and epicardial cells using whole-cell patch-clamp techniques, although the difference in current density was less pronounced (approximately threefold). Consistent with this, we show here that when the ventricle is stretched by inflation of an intraventricular balloon in a Langendorff perfused rat isolated heart, action potential shortening was more pronounced in the endocardium (30% shortening at 40 mmHg) compared with that in the epicardium (10% shortening at the same pressure). 4. Computer models of the mechanics of the (pig) heart show pronounced spatial variations in strain in the myocardium with large transmural differences (in the left ventricle in particular) and also large differences between the base and apex of the ventricle. 5. The importance of MEF and the non-homogeneous gene expression and strain distribution for arrhythmias is discussed. |
Keywords: | Myocardium Heart Endocardium Heart Conduction System Heart Ventricles Pericardium Myocytes, Cardiac Animals Swine Rats Potassium Channels, Tandem Pore Domain RNA, Messenger Mechanotransduction, Cellular Ion Channel Gating Gene Expression Regulation Myocardial Contraction Models, Cardiovascular Models, Anatomic Computer Simulation Arrhythmias, Cardiac |
Description: | The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2006.04392.x |
Published version: | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1681.2006.04392.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Molecular and Biomedical Science publications |
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