Fraction of the T-Tubular Membrane as an Important Parameter in Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology: A New Way of Estimation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14110%2F22%3A00125820" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14110/22:00125820 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.837239/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.837239/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.837239" target="_blank" >10.3389/fphys.2022.837239</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fraction of the T-Tubular Membrane as an Important Parameter in Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology: A New Way of Estimation

Original language description

The transverse-axial tubular system (t-tubules) plays an essential role in excitation-contraction coupling in cardiomyocytes. Its remodelling is associated with various cardiac diseases. Numerous attempts were made to analyse characteristics essential for proper understanding of the t-tubules and their impact on cardiac cell function in health and disease. The currently available methodical approaches related to the fraction of the t-tubular membrane area produce diverse data. The widely used detubulation techniques cause irreversible cell impairment, thus, distinct cell samples have to be used for estimation of t-tubular parameters in untreated and detubulated cells. Our proposed alternative method is reversible and allows repetitive estimation of the fraction of t-tubular membrane (ft) in cardiomyocytes using short-term perfusion of the measured cell with a low-conductive isotonic sucrose solution. It results in a substantial increase in the electrical resistance of t-tubular lumen, thus, electrically separating the surface and t-tubular membranes. Using the whole-cell patch-clamp measurement and the new approach in enzymatically isolated rat atrial and ventricular myocytes, a set of data was measured and evaluated. The analysis of the electrical equivalent circuit resulted in the establishment of criteria for excluding measurements in which perfusion with a low conductivity solution did not affect the entire cell surface. As expected, the final average ft in ventricular myocytes (0.337 ± 0.017) was significantly higher than that in atrial myocytes (0.144 ± 0.015). The parameter ft could be estimated repetitively in a particular cell (0.345 ± 0.021 and 0.347 ± 0.023 in ventricular myocytes during the first and second sucrose perfusion, respectively). The new method is fast, simple, and leaves the measured cell intact. It can be applied in the course of experiments for which it is useful to estimate both the surface and t-tubular capacitance/area in a particular cell.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30105 - Physiology (including cytology)

Project

<a href="/en/project/NU22-02-00348" target="_blank" >NU22-02-00348: Functional assessment of genetic variants in clinically “true” cases of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation: in vitro and in silico modelling to reveal the arrhythmogenic mechanism</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Physiology

ISSN

1664-042X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

May 2022

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1-12

UT code for WoS article

000802259800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85130694888