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Neuronal control of heart rate in isolated mouse atria

Department of Physiology, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia

Submitted 2 January 2003 ; accepted in final form 21 April 2003

A novel mouse isolated atrial preparation with intact postganglionic autonomic innervation was used to investigate the neuronal control of heart rate. To establish whether autonomic activation was likely to alter heart rate by modulating the hyperpolarization-activated current (I_f), the L-type Ca²⁺ current (I_Ca,L), or the ACh-activated K⁺ current (I_K,ACh), the effects of nerve stimulation (right stellate ganglion or right vagus, 1–30 Hz) and autonomic agonists (0.1 µM norepinephrine or 0.3 µM carbachol) on heart rate were investigated in the presence of inhibitors of these currents, cesium chloride (Cs⁺, 1 mM), nifedipine (200 nM), and barium chloride (Ba²⁺, 0.1 mM), respectively. The positive chronotropic response to stellate ganglion stimulation was reduced by 20% with Cs⁺ and nifedipine (P < 0.05), whereas the heart rate response to norepinephrine was only reduced with Cs⁺ (P < 0.05). Ba²⁺ attenuated the decrease in heart rate with vagal stimulation and carbachol by 60% (P < 0.05). These results are consistent with the idea that sympathetic nerve stimulation modulates I_f to increase heart rate in the mouse. Activation of I_Ca,L also appears to contribute to the sympathetic heart rate response. However, the decrease in heart rate with vagal stimulation or carbachol is likely to result primarily from the activation of I_K,ACh.

sinoatrial node; heart rate; sympathetic; parasympathetic

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