Journal
PEPTIDES
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 331-336Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.09.007
Keywords
calcium transients; fluorescence imaging; heart failure; neuropeptides; calcitonin gene-related peptide
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The purpose of this study was to localize sites of calcitonin gene-related peptide binding in neonatal. freshly isolated and dedifferentiated adult cardiac myocytes in order to help Lis elucidate the mechanisms of action of this neuropeptides. Previous work has shown that treatment with calcitonin gene-related peptide results in dramatic changes in calcium transients, so we carried out multi-channel acquisitions of fluorescently labeled images to reveal where calcitonin gene-related protein and the L-type calcium channel were localized. Calcitonin gene-related protein was sparse and randomly distributed in rod-like adult cardiomyocytes, found in abundance in areas of the cell where striations; were apparent and not where adhesion proteins predominated in dedifferentiating adult myocytes, and in a large perinuclear concentration, with some spreading into the cytoplasm in neonatal cells. Subsequent modeling demonstrated that calcitonin gene-related peptide and the L-type calcium channel protein were closely associated in each of the three myocyte types. suggesting that while the peptide has dramatic and different effects on intracellular calcium levels of the various cardiomyocytes, the action is probably via diverse mechanisms as a result of effects on different channels or pump proteins due to alterations in intracellular calcium Concentrations. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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