Journal
ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA
Volume 194, Issue 2, Pages 123-140Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2008.01865.x
Keywords
cardiac action potentials; cardiac arrhythmogenesis; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia; genetically modified mice; ryanodine receptor; P2328S-RyR2
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- James Baird Fund
- Frank Elmore Fund
- Medical Research Council
- Wellcome Trust
- British Heart Foundation
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Aim: To explore the physiological consequences of the ryanodine receptor (RyR2)-P2328S mutation associated with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Methods: We generated heterozygotic (RyR2(p/s)) and homozygotic (RyR2(s/s)) transgenic mice and studied Ca2+ signals from regularly stimulated, Fluo-3-loaded, cardiac myocytes. Results were compared with monophasic action potentials (MAPs) in Langendorff-perfused hearts under both regular and programmed electrical stimulation (PES). Results: Evoked Ca2+ transients from wild-type (WT), heterozygote (RyR2(p/s)) and homozygote (RyR2(s/s)) myocytes had indistinguishable peak amplitudes with RyR2(s/s) showing subsidiary events. Adding 100 nM isoproterenol produced both ectopic peaks and subsidiary events in WT but not RyR2(p/s) and ectopic peaks and reduced amplitudes of evoked peaks in RyR2(s/s). Regularly stimulated WT, RyR2(p/s) and RyR2(s/s) hearts showed indistinguishable MAP durations and refractory periods. RyR2(p/s) hearts showed non-sustained ventricular tachycardias (nsVTs) only with PES. Both nsVTs and sustained VTs (sVTs) occurred with regular stimuli and PES with isoproterenol treatment. RyR2(s/s) hearts showed higher incidences of nsVTs before but mainly sVTs after introduction of isoproterenol with both regular stimuli and PES, particularly at higher pacing frequencies. Additionally, intrinsically beating RyR2(s/s) showed extrasystolic events often followed by spontaneous sVT. Conclusion: The RyR2-P2328S mutation results in marked alterations in cellular Ca2+ homeostasis and arrhythmogenic properties resembling CPVT with greater effects in the homozygote than the heterozygote demonstrating an important gene dosage effect.
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