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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 247: H185-H194, 1984;
0363-6135/84 $5.00
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 247, Issue 2 185-H194, Copyright © 1984 by American Physiological Society

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Circus-movement tachycardia in frog atrium monitored by voltage-sensitive dyes

T. Sawanobori, Y. Hirano, A. Hirota and S. Fujii

Circus-movement tachycardia was studied using voltage-sensitive merocyanine-rhodanine dyes (dye XVII and NK2761). Excitatory waves were optically measured simultaneously from eight different regions of a ring of tissue formed from frog atrium. Application of acetylcholine in Ca2+-free solution (10(-10)-10(-9) g/ml) shortened the duration of optical action signals to cause nonuniform change in optical signal durations in about 60% of the preparations. Circus-movement tachycardia was produced by proper reduction and regional nonuniformity of optical signal durations. Under these circumstances it is easy to evoke circus-movement tachycardia by giving an extra stimulus to the site that shows a difference in optical signal durations.




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