title: Closure of a rapidly exchanging calcium compartment in rat cardiac myocytes by lanthanum.
abstract: Enzymatically isolated myocytes from adult rats were used to measure 45Ca-uptake from salt media of reduced Ca2(+)-content (0.1 mM) with normal (4 mM) or elevated (20 mM) potassium concentrations. Ca2(+)-uptake was interrupted by filtration followed by rapid chasing the filter with salt solutions containing no Ca2+, 2 mM Ca2+ or 2 mM La3+. Rate and extent of 45Ca-uptake of resting cells were found to be 3-fold enhanced when chasing was performed with La3(+)-containing media. In contrast La3+ does not affect Ca2(+)-exchange of depolarized cells, the fluxes of which approximate rates sufficiently high for contraction activation and that are sensitive to Ca2(+)-channel blockers. The effect of La3+ on resting cells suggests the existence of a small rapidly exchanging La3(+)-sensitive Ca2(+)-compartment located adjacent to the plasma membrane. This compartment is though to be either closed or has become La3(+)-insensitive in activated cells. The subsarcolemmal cysternae of the SR, the so-called "peripheral couplings" are most likely the morphological substrate of this compartment.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Abteilung für Physiologie, Heidelberg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hartl
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hasselbach
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D007811:Lanthanum / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D011188:Potassium / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D007811:Lanthanum; D011188:Potassium; D002118:Calcium