title: Role of Na+/Ca2+ exchange in endothelin-1-induced increases in Ca2+ transient and contractility in rabbit ventricular myocytes: pharmacological analysis with KB-R7943.
abstract: 1. The effects of endothelin-1 (ET-1) on intracellular Ca2+ ion level and cell contraction were simultaneously investigated in rabbit ventricular cardiac myocytes loaded with indo-1/A1. The role of Na+/Ca2+ exchange in ET-1-induced positive inotropic effect (PIE) was examined by using KB-R7943 (2-[2-[4-(4-nitrobenzyloxy)phenyl]ethyl]isothiourea methanesulphonate), a selective inhibitor of reverse mode Na+/Ca2+ exchange. 2. ET-1 at 0.3 pM - 1 nM increased cell contraction and Ca2+ transient (CaT) with EC50 values of 2.9 pM and 1.2 pM, respectively, and the increase in amplitude of CaT was much smaller relative to the PIE: ET-1 at 1 nM increased peak cell shortening by 237%, while it increased peak CaT by 167%. For a given level of PIE, ET-1-induced increase in CaT was much smaller than that induced by elevation of [Ca2+]o and by isoprenaline. Therefore, ET-1 shifted the relationship between peak CaT and cell shortening to the left relative to the relationship for increase in [Ca2+]o, an indication that ET-1 increased myofibrillar Ca2+ sensitivity. 3. KB-R7943 at 0.1 microM and higher inhibited contraction and CaT induced by 0.1 nM ET-1 and at 0.3 microM it abolished the increase in CaT while inhibiting the PIE by 48.1%. Over concentration range of 0.1-0.3 microM, KB-R7943 neither inhibited baseline contraction and CaT nor the isoprenaline-induced response, although at 1 microM and higher it had a significant inhibitory action on these responses. 4. These results indicate that in rabbit ventricular myocytes both increases in CaT and myofibrillar Ca2+ sensitivity contribute to the ET-induced PIE, and the activation of reverse mode Na+/Ca2+ exchange may play a crucial role in increase in CaT induced by ET-1 in rabbit ventricular cardiac myocytes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Norota
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Endoh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D048429:Cell Size / Q000187:drug effects; D004347:Drug Interactions; D019332:Endothelin-1 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D007211:Indoles; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D019831:Sodium-Calcium Exchanger / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000502:physiology*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013890:Thiourea / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D016276:Ventricular Function
chemical_list: C101670:2-(2-(4-(4-nitrobenzyloxy)phenyl)ethyl)isothiourea methanesulfonate; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D019332:Endothelin-1; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007211:Indoles; D019831:Sodium-Calcium Exchanger; C059587:Indo-1 pentaacetoxymethyl ester; D013890:Thiourea; D007545:Isoproterenol; D002118:Calcium