Effects of muscarinic receptor stimulation on Ca2+ transient, cAMP production and pacemaker frequency of rabbit sinoatrial node cells
Open Access
- 29 July 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Basic Research in Cardiology
- Vol. 105 (1), 73-87
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00395-009-0048-9
Abstract
We investigated the contribution of the intracellular calcium (Ca 2+i ) transient to acetylcholine (ACh)-mediated reduction of pacemaker frequency and cAMP content in rabbit sinoatrial nodal (SAN) cells. Action potentials (whole cell perforated patch clamp) and Ca 2+i transients (Indo-1 fluorescence) were recorded from single isolated rabbit SAN cells, whereas intracellular cAMP content was measured in SAN cell suspensions using a cAMP assay (LANCE®). Our data show that the Ca 2+i transient, like the hyperpolarization-activated “funny current” (I f) and the ACh-sensitive potassium current (I K,ACh), is an important determinant of ACh-mediated pacemaker slowing. When I f and I K,ACh were both inhibited, by cesium (2 mM) and tertiapin (100 nM), respectively, 1 μM ACh was still able to reduce pacemaker frequency by 72%. In these I f and I K,ACh-inhibited SAN cells, good correlations were found between the ACh-mediated change in interbeat interval and the ACh-mediated change in Ca 2+i transient decay (r 2 = 0.98) and slow diastolic Ca 2+i rise (r 2 = 0.73). Inhibition of the Ca 2+i transient by ryanodine (3 μM) or BAPTA-AM (5 μM) facilitated ACh-mediated pacemaker slowing. Furthermore, ACh depressed the Ca 2+i transient and reduced the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ content, all in a concentration-dependent fashion. At 1 μM ACh, the spontaneous activity and Ca 2+i transient were abolished, but completely recovered when cAMP production was stimulated by forskolin (10 μM) and I K,ACh was inhibited by tertiapin (100 nM). Also, inhibition of the Ca 2+i transient by ryanodine (3 μM) or BAPTA-AM (25 μM) exaggerated the ACh-mediated inhibition of cAMP content, indicating that Ca 2+i affects cAMP production in SAN cells. In conclusion, muscarinic receptor stimulation inhibits the Ca 2+i transient via a cAMP-dependent signaling pathway. Inhibition of the Ca 2+i transient contributes to pacemaker slowing and inhibits Ca 2+i -stimulated cAMP production. Thus, we provide functional evidence for the contribution of the Ca 2+i transient to ACh-induced inhibition of pacemaker activity and cAMP content in rabbit SAN cells.Keywords
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