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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 282: H1452-H1460, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00286.2001
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Vol. 282, Issue 4, H1452-H1460, April 2002

Reversibility of electrophysiological changes induced by chronic high-altitude hypoxia in adult rat heart

C. Chouabe, J. Amsellem, L. Espinosa, P. Ribaux, S. Blaineau, P. Mégas, and R. Bonvallet

UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5123, Physiologie des Régulations Energétiques, Cellulaires et Moléculaires, Université Lyon I, Campus La Doua, 69622 Villeurbanne, France

Recent studies indicate that regression of left ventricular hypertrophy normalizes membrane ionic current abnormalities. This work was designed to determine whether regression of right ventricular hypertrophy induced by permanent high-altitude exposure (4,500 m, 20 days) in adult rats also normalizes changes of ventricular myocyte electrophysiology. According to the current data, prolonged action potential, decreased transient outward current density, and increased inward sodium/calcium exchange current density normalized 20 days after the end of altitude exposure, whereas right ventricular hypertrophy evidenced by both the right ventricular weight-to-heart weight ratio and the right ventricular free wall thickness measurement normalized 40 days after the end of altitude exposure. This morphological normalization occurred at both the level of muscular tissue, as shown by the decrease toward control values of some myocyte parameters (perimeter, capacitance, and width), and the level of the interstitial collagenous connective tissue. In the chronic high-altitude hypoxia model, the regression of right ventricular hypertrophy would not be a prerequisite for normalization of ventricular electrophysiological abnormalities.

hypertrophy; right ventricular myocytes; fibrosis; action potential; ionic currents


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