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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
1. Rabbit Purkinje fibres were studied using micro-electrode recordings of electrical activity or a two-micro-electrode voltage clamp. Previous morphological work had suggested that these preparations offer structural advantages for the analysis of ionic permeability mechanisms. 2. Viable preparations could be obtained consistently by exposure to a K glutamate Tyrode solution during excision and recovery. In NaCl Tyrode solution, the action potential showed a large overshoot and fully developed plateau, but no pacemaker depolarization at negative potentials. 3. The passive electrical properties were consistent with morphological evidence for the accessibility of cleft membranes within the cell bundle. Electrotonic responses to intracellular current steps showed the behaviour expected for a simple leaky capacitative cable. Capacitative current transients under voltage clamp were changed very little by an eightfold reduction in the external solution conductivity. 4. Slow current changes attributable to K depletion were small compared to those found in other cardiac preparations. The amount of depletion was close to that predicted by a cleft model which assumed free K diffusion in 1 micron clefts. 5. Step depolarizations over the plateau range of potentials evoked a slow inward current which was resistant to tetrodotoxin but blocked by D600. 6. Strong depolarizations to potentials near 0 mV elicited a transient outward current and a slowly activating late outward current. Both components resembled currents found in sheep or calf Purkinje fibres. 7. These experiments support previous interpretations of slow plateau currents in terms of genuine permeability changes. The rabbit Purkinje fibre may allow various ionic channels to be studied with relatively little interference from radial non-uniformities in membrane potential or ion concentration.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-3751
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
290
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
227-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
Electrical properties associated with wide intercellular clefts in rabbit Purkinje fibres.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.