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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 254: H192-H197, 1988;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 254, Issue 1 192-H197, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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Delayed rectifier K+ current in embryonic chick heart ventricle

D. E. Clapham and D. E. Logothetis
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Single ventricular cells from 7- to 10-day-old embryonic chicks were studied with the use of whole cell, outside-out, and cell-attached patch-clamp techniques. The macroscopic delayed rectifier current, IK, activated at membrane potentials above -25 mV. Peak IK at +40 mV was 103 +/- 20 pA (5.7 +/- 1 microA/cm2). IK was selective for K ions with reversal potentials close to the Nernst equilibrium potentials. The onset of current during a voltage step was sigmoidal and was fit by the function IK = IKoo (1-e-t/tau)2. The peak time constant of activation was greater than 6 s at -25 mV (22 degrees C). Significant inactivation was not observed. IK was blocked by intracellular cesium, extracellular 1 mM 4-aminopyridine, 20 mM tetraethylammonium chloride, and 1 mM barium chloride. Single-channel recordings revealed a K+-selective channel with a slope conductance of 15 pS (extracellular [K+] = 4 mM, intracellular [K+] = 145 mM). An ensemble average of consecutive single-channel traces reproduced the whole cell current. The single-channel density was approximately 0.04/micron 2 based on frequency of patches containing the 15-pS single conductance. Approximately 100 channels/cell would sum to account for the net IK. We have described for the first time a channel underlying the main delayed rectifier current and, as such, a main repolarization current in chick ventricle.


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