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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5-6
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-2
pubmed:abstractText
The effects of lidocaine, a local anesthetic and cardiac antiarrhythmic agent, were studied on cardiac nonlinear Na channel and Ca channel charge movements (gating currents) of 17-day-old embryonic chick ventricular myocytes. Gating currents were recorded following the blockade of all ionic currents and the subtraction of the linear capacity currents (-P/5). From a holding potential of -100 mV the ON charge movement (QON) displayed two kinetic components: a rapidly decaying component associated with Ca channel gating, and a slower component associated with Ca channel gating. A depolarizing prepulse to -50 mV for 125 ms reduced the fast component of QON, with little effect on the slower component. Similarly, 20 microM lidocaine also reduced the fast component of QON (Na channel charge movement) and had little effect on the slower component (Ca channel charge movement). Higher concentrations of lidocaine (125 microM) reduced both the fast and the slower components of QON. The effects of either a prepulse to -50 mV, or 20 microM lidocaine on the steady-state QON/Vm relationship were nearly identical. These results suggest that lidocaine "blocks" cardiac Na (ionic) currents by a reduction in the availability of Na channel charge movement (QON), and that this reduction is similar to that produced by voltage-dependent inactivation.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0031-6768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
428
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
485-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Voltage- and concentration-dependent effects of lidocaine on cardiac Na channel gating charge movements.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, OH 45267-0576.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't