期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
卷 301, 期 5, 页码 H1996-H2005出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00284.2011
关键词
atria; t-tubule heart
资金
- British Heart Foundation
- Manchester Biomedical Research Center
- Fondation Leducq (European-North American Atrial Fibrillation Research Alliance) [07CVD03]
- British Heart Foundation [PG/09/062/27872, FS/09/002/26487] Funding Source: researchfish
Richards MA, Clarke JD, Saravanan P, Voigt N, Dobrev D, Eisner DA, Trafford AW, Dibb KM. Transverse tubules are a common feature in large mammalian atrial myocytes including human. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 301: H1996-H2005, 2011. First published August 12, 2011; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00284.2011.-Transverse (t) tubules are surface membrane invaginations that are present in all mammalian cardiac ventricular cells. The apposition of L-type Ca(2+) channels on t tubules with the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) constitutes a calcium release unit and allows close coupling of excitation to the rise in systolic Ca(2+). T tubules are virtually absent in the atria of small mammals, and therefore Ca(2+) release from the SR occurs initially at the periphery of the cell and then propagates into the interior. Recent work has, however, shown the occurrence of t tubules in atrial myocytes from sheep. As in the ventricle, Ca(2+) release in these cells occurs simultaneously in central and peripheral regions. T tubules in both the atria and the ventricle are lost in disease, contributing to cellular dysfunction. The aim of this study was to determine if the occurrence of t tubules in the atrium is restricted to sheep or is a more general property of larger mammals including humans. In atrial tissue sections from human, horse, cow, and sheep, membranes were labeled using wheat germ agglutinin. As previously shown in sheep, extensive t-tubule networks were present in horse, cow, and human atrial myocytes. Analysis shows half the volume of the cell lies within 0.64 +/- 0.03, 0.77 +/- 0.03, 0.84 +/- 0.03, and 1.56 +/- 0.19 mu m of t-tubule membrane in horse, cow, sheep, and human atrial myocytes, respectively. The presence of t tubules in the human atria may play an important role in determining the spatio-temporal properties of the systolic Ca(2+) transient and how this is perturbed in disease.
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