title: Restitution analysis of alternans and its relationship to arrhythmogenicity in hypokalaemic Langendorff-perfused murine hearts.
abstract: Alternans and arrhythmogenicity were studied in hypokalaemic (3.0 mM K(+)) Langendorff-perfused murine hearts paced at high rates. Epicardial and endocardial monophasic action potentials were recorded and durations quantified at 90% repolarization. Alternans and arrhythmia occurred in hypokalaemic, but not normokalaemic (5.2 mM K(+)) hearts (P<0.01): this was prevented by treatment with lidocaine (10 microM, P<0.01). Fourier analysis then confirmed transition from monomorphic to polymorphic waveforms for the first time in the murine heart. Alternans and arrhythmia were associated with increases in the slopes of restitution curves, obtained for the first time in the murine heart, while the anti-arrhythmic effect of lidocaine was associated with decreased slopes. Thus, hypokalaemia significantly increased (P<0.05) maximal gradients (from 0.55+/-0.14 to 2.35+/-0.67 in the epicardium and from 0.67+/-0.13 to 1.87 +/-0.28 in the endocardium) and critical diastolic intervals (DIs) at which gradients equalled unity (from -2.14+/-0.52 ms to 50.93+/-14.45 ms in the epicardium and from 8.14+/-1.49 ms to 44.64+/-5 ms in the endocardium). While treatment of normokalaemic hearts with lidocaine had no significant effect (P>0.05) on either maximal gradients (0.78+/-0.27 in the epicardium and 0.83+/-0.45 in the endocardium) or critical DIs (6.06+/-2.10 ms and 7.04+/-3.82 ms in the endocardium), treatment of hypokalaemic hearts with lidocaine reduced (P<0.05) both these parameters (1.05+/-0.30 in the epicardium and 0.89+/-0.36 in the endocardium and 30.38+/-8.88 ms in the epicardium and 31.65+/-4.78 ms in the endocardium, respectively). We thus demonstrate that alternans contributes a dynamic component to arrhythmic substrate during hypokalaemia, that restitution may furnish an underlying mechanism and that these phenomena are abolished by lidocaine, both recapitulating and clarifying clinical findings.
authors: Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EG, UK.
authors: Ian N
authors: IN
authors: Sabir
authors: Lucia M
authors: LM
authors: Li
authors: Andrew A
authors: AA
authors: Grace
authors: Christopher L-H
authors: CL
authors: Huang
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004699:Endocardium / Q000503:physiopathology; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D007008:Hypokalemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008012:Lidocaine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D010477:Perfusion; D010496:Pericardium / Q000503:physiopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D008012:Lidocaine
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