title: [Effects of interleukin-2 on the isolated rat heart and the mechanism].
abstract: The purpose of the present study was to explore the biological effects and mechanism of interleukin-2 (IL-2) on the isolated rat heart. The results showed that hrIL-2 increased the number of premature ventricular contraction, heart rate, left ventricular developed pressure, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and coronary flow in the isolated perfused rat heart. Heat inactivated hrIL-2 had no effect on the heart. Pretreatment with ryanodine canceled the positive effects of hrIL-2 on left ventricular developed pressure, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and coronary flow but had no effects on arrhythmogenesis and tachycardia by hrIL-2. Pretreatment with nifedipine or low extracellular calcium abolished the arrhythmogenic effect of hrIL-2 and attenuated partially the augment of heart rate, left ventricular developed pressure, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and coronary flow. It suggests that the cardiac activity of hrIL-2 depended on the integrity of its spatial structure and transmembrane influx Ca2+ and intracellularly stored Ca2+ were involved in the cardiac activity of hrIL-2.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310006.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000139:chemically induced; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D011994:Recombinant Proteins