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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms in rats with heart failure induced by pulmonary hypertension |
Author: | Benoist, D. Stones, R. Drinkhill, M. Benson, A. Yang, Z. Cassan, C. Gilbert, S. Saint, D. Cazorla, O. Steele, D. Bernus, O. White, E. |
Citation: | American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 2012; 302(11):H2381-H2395 |
Publisher: | Amer Physiological Soc |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
ISSN: | 0363-6135 1522-1539 |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Benoist, Rachel Stones, Mark J. Drinkhill, Alan P. Benson, Zhaokang Yang, Cecile Cassan, Stephen H. Gilbert, David A. Saint, Olivier Cazorla, Derek S. Steele, Olivier Bernus, and Ed White |
Abstract: | Pulmonary hypertension provokes right heart failure and arrhythmias. Better understanding of the mechanisms underlying these arrhythmias is needed to facilitate new therapeutic approaches for the hypertensive, failing right ventricle (RV). The aim of our study was to identify the mechanisms generating arrhythmias in a model of RV failure induced by pulmonary hypertension. Rats were injected with monocrotaline to induce either RV hypertrophy or failure or with saline (control). ECGs were measured in conscious, unrestrained animals by telemetry. In isolated hearts, electrical activity was measured by optical mapping and myofiber orientation by diffusion tensor-MRI. Sarcoplasmic reticular Ca2+ handling was studied in single myocytes. Compared with control animals, the T-wave of the ECG was prolonged and in three of seven heart failure animals, prominent T-wave alternans occurred. Discordant action potential (AP) alternans occurred in isolated failing hearts and Ca2+ transient alternans in failing myocytes. In failing hearts, AP duration and dispersion were increased; conduction velocity and AP restitution were steeper. The latter was intrinsic to failing single myocytes. Failing hearts had greater fiber angle disarray; this correlated with AP duration. Failing myocytes had reduced sarco(endo)plasmic reticular Ca2+-ATPase activity, increased sarcoplasmic reticular Ca2+-release fraction, and increased Ca2+ spark leak. In hypertrophied hearts and myocytes, dysfunctional adaptation had begun, but alternans did not develop. We conclude that increased electrical and structural heterogeneity and dysfunctional sarcoplasmic reticular Ca2+ handling increased the probability of alternans, a proarrhythmic predictor of sudden cardiac death. These mechanisms are potential therapeutic targets for the correction of arrhythmias in hypertensive, failing RVs. |
Keywords: | electrocardiography monocrotaline calcium signaling voltage-sensitive dye imaging alternans |
Rights: | Copyright © 2012 the American Physiological Society |
DOI: | 10.1152/ajpheart.01084.2011 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.01084.2011 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Physiology publications |
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