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  • Title: On the mechanism of the failure of mitochondrial function in isolated guinea-pig myocytes subjected to a Ca2+ overload.
    Author: Ban K, Handa S, Chapman RA.
    Journal: Cardiovasc Res; 1999 Dec; 44(3):556-67. PubMed ID: 10690288.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: The influence of agents that inhibit the movement of Ca2+ across the mitochondrial membrane or Ca2+ dependent changes to this membrane upon the response of isolated ventricular myocytes to a Ca2+ overload has been investigated. METHODS: The changes of intracellular Ca2+ and Mg2+ ([Ca2+]i, [Mg2+]i) (as reflected by cellular ATP), mitochondrial membrane potential (psi m) and NADH was measured upon the response of isolated ventricular myocytes to a Ca2+ overload. RESULTS: A slow depolarization of psi m during Ca2+ depletion and its prompt recovery on Ca2+ repletion were unaffected by ruthenium red, clonazepam, CGP-37157 which is a high potent inhibitor of the mitochondrial Na+/Ca2+ antiport or cyclosporin A but a large delayed sustained depolarization was inhibited. The slow small fall in [Mg2+]i on Ca2+ depletion and a rapid recovery on Ca2+ repletion were unaffected by ruthenium red, clonazepam, CGP-37157 or cyclosporin A. A delayed sustained larger rise in [Mg2+]i was inhibited. The marked sustained fall in NADH autofluorescence that occurs on Ca2+ overload was attenuated and transient in the presence of ruthenium red, CGP-37157 and cyclosporin A. CONCLUSION: These results are consistent with an increase in Ca2+ cycling across the mitochondrial membrane provoked by the combined Na+ and Ca2+ overload of cardiac myocytes, causing a depolarization sufficient to uncouple respiration and lead to the depletion of cellular ATP.
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