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Propafenone and its metabolites preferentially inhibit IKr in rabbit ventricular myocytes.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Cahill, Sean A. Gross, Gil J. |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Propafenone is an antiarrhythmic agent with recognized cardiac myocyte repolarizing K+ current inhibitory effects. It has two known electropharmacologically active metabolites, 5-hydroxy- and N-depropylpropafenone, whose K+ current inhibitory effects are less thoroughly elucidated than those of the parent compound. This study characterizes and directly compares the pharmacologic interaction of all three compounds with two key repolarizing K+ currents, the rapidly activating delayed rectifier IKr and the transient outward current Ito, using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique in isolated rabbit ventricular myocytes. All three agents potently inhibited IKr with IC50 values of 0.80 +/-0.14, 1.88 +/-0.21, and 5.78 +/-1.24 microM for propafenone, 5-hydroxypropafenone, and N-depropylpropafenone, respectively, based on reduction of peak tail current amplitude following repolarization from +50 mV to -30 mV. IKr inhibition was concentration- and weakly voltage-dependent, with a time course from channel activation that was well described by a single exponential model and consistent with open channel block. Propafenone and its 5-hydroxy and N-depropyl metabolites also blocked Ito with IC50 values of 7.27 +/-0.53, 40.29 +/-7.55, and 44.26 +/-5.73 microM, respectively, at +50 mV. No significant drug effects were observed with respect to Ito voltage dependence of steady-state inactivation or time course of recovery from inactivation. The preferential interaction of propafenone and its metabolites with IKr relative to Ito in ventricular myocytes sheds new light on the anti- and proarrhythmic activity of propafenone in vivo. |
| Starting Page | 59 |
| Ending Page | 65 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1124/jpet.103.057844 |
| PubMed reference number | 14569067 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 308 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/jpet/308/1/59.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.103.057844 |
| Journal | The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
