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Adenosine reduces the Ca2+ transients of isoproterenol-stimulated rat ventricular myocytes

R. A. Fenton, E. D. Moore, F. S. Fay and J. G. Dobson Jr
Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655.

Adenosine in the heart attenuates the contractile and metabolic effects of beta-adrenergic stimulation. The effect of adenosine on changes in intracellular Ca2+ concentration [( Ca2+]i) elicited with electrical stimulation was studied in rat ventricular myocytes in the absence and presence of isoproterenol (ISO). Fura-2 was utilized as a Ca2+ indicator. Autofluorescence was determined, and in vivo calibration was conducted, for each myocyte. Phenylisopropyladenosine (PIA; 10(-7) M; 5 min), an adenosine A1 receptor agonist, had no effect on the Ca2+ transient magnitude (TM) or the rate of Ca2+ transient decline determined at 150 nM Ca2+(i) (RD150). ISO (10(-8) M; 1 min) in the continued presence of PIA resulted in a 16% increase in the TM, but no change in the RD150. Inhibiting the PIA with 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine (DPCPX; 10(-7) M; 3 min) in the continued presence of ISO plus PIA resulted in a further 51% increase in the TM and a 57% increase in the RD150. In PIA-treated myocytes, ISO-induced spontaneous high-frequency Ca2+ transients occasionally were observed after the inhibition of PIA by DPCPX. The results of this study suggest that adenosine attenuates myocardial contractile responses to beta-adrenergic stimulation, in part, by reducing the beta-adrenergic-induced changes in the Ca2+ transients occurring in the contracting ventricular myocyte.

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