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Department of Physiology II, Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan
The mechanisms of the slower time courses of Ca2+ transients (CaT) and contraction in diabetic (diabetes mellitus, DM) myocardium were studied. The aequorin method was applied to papillary muscles of streptozotocin-induced DM and control rats. The time courses of CaT and tension of twitch in DM were slower than those in control, although the magnitudes of the CaT and contraction were identical. The dependence of CaT decay time and relaxation time on developed tension in DM and control rats differed. The length-tension relation in twitch and the pCa-tension relation in tetanus were identical in the two groups. The magnitude of extra Ca2+ (transient increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration induced by a quick release in tetanus) was identical in both groups. pCa-tension relations of skinned trabeculae at different sarcomere lengths were nearly identical. The cross-bridge cycling rate (CCR) in DM was slower than that in control. These results indicate that the tension-dependent change in the Ca2+ affinity of troponin C in DM myocardium functions as in control myocardium. The slower time courses of CaT and tension in DM myocardium are caused by slower Ca2+ uptake by the sarcoplasmic reticulum and the slower CCR.
aequorin; cross-bridge cycling rate; sarcoplasmic reticulum; troponin C; diabetes mellitus
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