NDLI: Defective “pacemaker” current (I h) in a zebrafish mutant with a slow heart rate

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Author	Baker, Keith Warren, Kerri S. Yellen, Gary Fishman, Mark C.
Copyright Year	1997
Abstract	At a cellular level, cardiac pacemaking, which sets the rate and rhythm of the heartbeat, is produced by the slow membrane depolarization that occurs between action potentials. Several ionic currents could account for this pacemaker potential, but their relative prominence is controversial, and it is not known which ones actually play a pacemaking role in vivo. To correlate currents in individual heart cells with the rhythmic properties of the intact heart, we have examined slow mo (smo), a recessive mutation we discovered in the zebrafish Danio rerio. This mutation causes a reduced heart rate in the embryo, a property we can quantitate because the embryo is transparent. We developed methods for culture of cardiocytes from zebrafish embryos and found that, even in culture, cells from smo continue to beat relatively slowly. By patch-clamp analysis, we discovered that a large repertoire of cardiac currents noted in other species are present in these cultured cells, including sodium, T-type, and L-type calcium and several potassium currents, all of which appear normal in the mutant. The only abnormality appears to be in a hyperpolarization-activated inward current with the properties of I h, a current described previously in the nervous system, pacemaker, and other cardiac tissue. smo cardiomyocytes have a reduction in I h that appears to result from severe diminution of one kinetic component of the I h current. This provides strong evidence that I h is an important contributor to the pacemaking behavior of the intact heart.
Starting Page	4554
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10916490
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	9
Volume Number	94
Language	English
Publisher	The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
Publisher Date	1997-04-29
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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