AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 263, Issue 4 1262-H1269, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Recovery of anoxic-reoxygenated cardiomyocytes from severe Ca2+ overload

B. Siegmund, R. Zude and H. M. Piper
Physiologisches Institut I, Universitat Dusseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany.

The ability of hypoxic-reoxygenated cardiomyocytes to recover from severe cytosolic Ca2+ overload was investigated using the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2 in ventricular cardiomyocytes from adult rats. When the fura-2 ratio (340/380 nm) reached saturation in hypoxic cardiomyocytes, indicating severe Ca2+ overload, they were reoxygenated. The cell then suddenly hypercontracted but reestablished, after a phase of Ca2+ oscillations, a normal Ca2+ control. Because these oscillations could be abolished by ryanodine (50 nM), they seem to depend on the function of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). In the presence of caffeine (5 mM) and thapsigargin (100 nM), i.e., agents impairing Ca2+ sequestration in the SR, reoxygenation did not lead to Ca2+ oscillations or to a stable recovery of cytosolic Ca2+ control. The additional presence of ruthenium red (5 microM), an inhibitor of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake, restored the ability of cells treated with caffeine or thapsigargin to reestablish a normal cytosolic Ca2+ control. The results show that cardiomyocytes are able to recover from severe hypoxic Ca2+ overload if, first, a closed sarcolemma is retained (as in isolated cardiomyocytes) and, second, the SR is available for rapid Ca2+ storage (impaired by caffeine and thapsigargin). The results also suggest that, in the case of an impairment of SR function, the inhibition of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake (as by ruthenium red) has a protective effect.

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