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J Appl Physiol 80: 1612-1617, 1996;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 80, Issue 5 1612-1617, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Decreased Ca2+ sensitivity of isometric tension in skinned cardiac myocytes from tail-suspended rats

A. W. Dunlap, D. B. Thomason, V. Menon and P. A. Hofmann
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163, USA.

Tail suspension in rats causes a cephalic shift in blood, resulting in a volume load on the heart similar to that observed during microgravity spaceflight or mild heart failure. The present study determined the influence of increased cardiac hemodynamic load on myofilament isometric tension as a function of Ca2+ concentration in skinned cardiac myocytes of control and 7-day head-down tilt Sprague-Dawley rats. Isometric force of single skinned myocytes was measured by attaching cells with adhesive to a force transducer and piezoelectric translator. A significant decrease in the Ca2+ sensitivity of tension was observed in cardiac myocytes from suspended rats [pCa of half-maximal tension (pCa50) of 5.83 +/- 0.03] compared with control rats (pCa50 of 5.94 +/- 0.03). Maximum tension generation and slope of the tension-pCa relationship were unaffected by head-down tilt. Electrophoretic analysis of myofilament proteins indicates differences in expression of proteins in the 50-60 and 100-120 kDa ranges; immunoblot analysis of tubulin (50 kDa) expression indicates no change in the ratio of beta-tubulin to light chain 1 or tropomyosin. Decreased force-producing ability at a given submaximum Ca2+ concentration in cardiac myocytes from suspended rats suggests a decrease in contractility possibly due to changes in cardiac myofilament protein expression following chronic elevated volume load on the heart.


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