Characteristics of transient outward current in human ventricular myocytes from patients with terminal heart failure.
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- abstracts
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation Research
- Vol. 73 (2), 386-394
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.73.2.386
Abstract
A variety of outward currents exists in ventricular myocardium of different species influencing action potential duration and electrical activity. Transient outward currents have been reported in ventricular tissue of some animals but are small or absent in others. This study was conducted to investigate whether a transient outward current exists in human ventricular myocardium and to characterize its basic electrophysiological properties. Currents were recorded from enzymatically isolated human ventricular myocytes obtained from explanted hearts of 22 patients with terminal heart failure. In almost all cells studied, a transient outward current could be recorded on depolarization to between -20 and +80 mV. The size of the transient outward current was usually large enough to mask the Ca2+ current. It could be recorded under conditions in which Ca2+ influx and intracellular Ca2+ transients were suppressed. Basic current characteristics were similar to transient outward currents observed in other species. ...Keywords
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