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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 259: C599-C604, 1990;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 259, Issue 4 C599-C604, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Different temperature sensitivity of cardiac Na+ channels in cell-attached and cell-free conditions

M. Kohlhardt
Physiological Institute, University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

At 19 degrees C and after cooling to 9 degrees C, elementary Na+ currents were recorded in cell-attached and inside-out patches from cultured neonatal rat myocytes. The study aimed to define the temperature sensitivity of single cardiac Na+ channels and to detect a possible modulating influence arising from the recording conditions. Cooling prolonged the open state by reducing the exit rate into a nonconducting configuration [tau open; temperature coefficient (Q10) = 1.90 +/- 0.02] and reduced the unitary current size (i(unit); Q10 = 1.26 +/- 0.03). Reopening proved to be only slightly temperature dependent; the mean number of sequential openings decreased to 91 +/- 2.1% of the value at 19 degrees C. Cooled Na+ channels are still capable of switching to ultralong sequential activity. Cooling reduced reconstructed peak Na+ current (INa) strongly, with Q10 values between 1.85 and 3.11 (mean, 2.36 +/- 0.29), if Na+ channels remained in their natural environment as was the case in cell-attached recording conditions. However, after disrupting the cellular contact, in inside-out patches, the same 10 degrees C drop in temperature diminished peak INa only slightly to 91 +/- 8.1% of the initial control value at 19 degrees C. This suggests a modulating influence on the open probability of cardiac Na+ channels arising from the cytosol of cooled myocytes.


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