Ology, CA, USA), rabbit anti-bThe in vitro data are the mean 6 s.d. and are representative of at 23388095 least three experiments. The in vivo data are the mean 6 s.d. The data were analyzed by Student’s t-test with P,0.05 considered to be significant. The TMA scoring was expressed as the mean 6 s.e.m. and was analysed by Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Tukey test.FHL2 Silencing Reduces Osteosarcoma TumorigenesisAuthor ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: JB FXD OF PJM. Performed the experiments: JB CM. Analyzed the data: JB OF PJM. Contributedreagents/materials/analysis tools: JM RS APG FL. Wrote the 1531364 paper: JB OF PJM.
Despite the important role of electro-mechanical MedChemExpress Eliglustat alternans in cardiac arrhythmogenesis [1], [2], its molecular origin is not well understood. This phenomenon has been associated with alternation in both ionic currents and in the cytosolic DprE1-IN-2 web calcium transient. The latter has been linked to a dysfunction of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium uptake [3], [4], or release [4], [5], [6], [7]. Indeed, several reports [5], [7] seem to support the hypothesis that the origin of alternans could lie in a steep relationship between SR calcium load and calcium release [4]. This steep relation has been explained as a dependence of the operating state of the ryanodine receptor (RyR2) with the SR calcium bound to calsequestrin [8], thus implying a stronger release at high calcium loads. Nevertheless, cytosolic calcium alternans has been observed both in the absence and presence of concurrent fluctuations in SR calcium loading [9], [10], [11]. Recently, Shkryl et al [11] have confirmed the presence of alternans without SR calciumfluctuations and related it to incomplete recovery in refractoriness of SR calcium release. This suggests that, besides calcium loading, other properties of the SR, such as activation of the ryanodine receptor (RyR2) [5], [6], inactivation of the RyR2 [12], [13], recovery of the RyR2 from inactivation [12], [14], and termination of calcium release through the RyR2 [15], [16], may all intervene in the regulation of the beat-to-beat stability of the cytosolic calcium transient. To address this issue, a major challenge lies in the difficulty of using experimental animal or cell models to resolve the specific contribution of a single property of the SR to the calcium transient and its beat-to-beat stability. Most often, manipulation of one parameter affects the state of several others, thus hampering quantification of its specific contribution. We here attempt to circumvent this problem by developing a novel numerical protocol applied to a computer model of a rabbit ventricular myocyte, where we can specifically change the dynamics of SR loading and RyR2 gating, and investigate the mechanisms responsible for theCa2+ Alternans and RyR2 Refractorinessinduction of calcium alternans, under different operating conditions of the RyR2.MethodsWe used a description of a rabbit ventricular myocyte based on the model described by Shannon et al [17]. The same formal equations were used, but differences in the values of some parameters of the calcium dynamics were introduced. The description of the RyR2 considers transitions among four states, one open, one closed, and two inactivated. The nomenclature and associated reaction equations for the RyR2 are shown in Figure S1 of Appendix S1. Activation and inactivation rates, given by the constants ka, and ki, were systematically changed in order to analyze their effect on the beat.Ology, CA, USA), rabbit anti-bThe in vitro data are the mean 6 s.d. and are representative of at 23388095 least three experiments. The in vivo data are the mean 6 s.d. The data were analyzed by Student’s t-test with P,0.05 considered to be significant. The TMA scoring was expressed as the mean 6 s.e.m. and was analysed by Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Tukey test.FHL2 Silencing Reduces Osteosarcoma TumorigenesisAuthor ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: JB FXD OF PJM. Performed the experiments: JB CM. Analyzed the data: JB OF PJM. Contributedreagents/materials/analysis tools: JM RS APG FL. Wrote the 1531364 paper: JB OF PJM.
Despite the important role of electro-mechanical alternans in cardiac arrhythmogenesis [1], [2], its molecular origin is not well understood. This phenomenon has been associated with alternation in both ionic currents and in the cytosolic calcium transient. The latter has been linked to a dysfunction of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium uptake [3], [4], or release [4], [5], [6], [7]. Indeed, several reports [5], [7] seem to support the hypothesis that the origin of alternans could lie in a steep relationship between SR calcium load and calcium release [4]. This steep relation has been explained as a dependence of the operating state of the ryanodine receptor (RyR2) with the SR calcium bound to calsequestrin [8], thus implying a stronger release at high calcium loads. Nevertheless, cytosolic calcium alternans has been observed both in the absence and presence of concurrent fluctuations in SR calcium loading [9], [10], [11]. Recently, Shkryl et al [11] have confirmed the presence of alternans without SR calciumfluctuations and related it to incomplete recovery in refractoriness of SR calcium release. This suggests that, besides calcium loading, other properties of the SR, such as activation of the ryanodine receptor (RyR2) [5], [6], inactivation of the RyR2 [12], [13], recovery of the RyR2 from inactivation [12], [14], and termination of calcium release through the RyR2 [15], [16], may all intervene in the regulation of the beat-to-beat stability of the cytosolic calcium transient. To address this issue, a major challenge lies in the difficulty of using experimental animal or cell models to resolve the specific contribution of a single property of the SR to the calcium transient and its beat-to-beat stability. Most often, manipulation of one parameter affects the state of several others, thus hampering quantification of its specific contribution. We here attempt to circumvent this problem by developing a novel numerical protocol applied to a computer model of a rabbit ventricular myocyte, where we can specifically change the dynamics of SR loading and RyR2 gating, and investigate the mechanisms responsible for theCa2+ Alternans and RyR2 Refractorinessinduction of calcium alternans, under different operating conditions of the RyR2.MethodsWe used a description of a rabbit ventricular myocyte based on the model described by Shannon et al [17]. The same formal equations were used, but differences in the values of some parameters of the calcium dynamics were introduced. The description of the RyR2 considers transitions among four states, one open, one closed, and two inactivated. The nomenclature and associated reaction equations for the RyR2 are shown in Figure S1 of Appendix S1. Activation and inactivation rates, given by the constants ka, and ki, were systematically changed in order to analyze their effect on the beat.
