Cardiac Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Isoform Regulates Myocardial Contraction and Calcium Handling
- 21 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation Research
- Vol. 92 (5), e52-9
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.0000064585.95749.6d
Abstract
A neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) has recently been located to the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). Subcellular localization of a constitutive NOS in the proximity of an activating source of Ca2+ suggests that cardiac nNOS-derived NO may regulate contraction by exerting a highly specific and localized action on ion channels/transporters involved in Ca2+ cycling. To test this hypothesis, we have investigated myocardial Ca2+ handling and contractility in nNOS knockout mice (nNOS−/−) and in control mice (C) after acute nNOS inhibition with 100 μmol/L L-VNIO. nNOS gene disruption or L-VNIO increased basal contraction both in left ventricular (LV) myocytes (steady-state cell shortening 10.3±0.6% in nNOS−/− versus 8.1±0.5% in C; P−/− versus 44.9±1.5% in C; PICa density (in pA/pF, at 0 mV, −11.4±0.5 in nNOS−/− versus −9.1±0.5 in C; PICa by 38% (P2+ influx and a greater SR load in nNOS−/− myocytes (in pC/pF, 0.78±0.04 in nNOS−/− versus 0.64±0.03 in C; P2+]i transient (indo-1) peak amplitude was greater in nNOS−/− myocytes (410/495 ratio 0.34±0.01 in nNOS−/− versus 0.31±0.01 in C; P2+ is regulated in LV myocytes and indicate that nNOS is an important determinant of basal contractility in the mammalian myocardium. The full text of this article is available at http://www.circresaha.org.Keywords
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