Ventricular repolarization in a rat model of global heart failure.
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| Abstract |
Isoproterenol in high doses induces infarction-like myocardial damage and structural and functional remodelling of the ventricular myocardium. The purpose of the present study was to investigate ventricular repolarization in a rat model of isoproterenol-induced heart failure. Isoproterenol was administered twice to female Wistar rats (170 mg/kg, s.c., 24 h apart). Four weeks after the injections, cardiac output was measured and unipolar epicardial ventricular electrograms were recorded in situ. Activation-recovery intervals were calculated to assess repolarization. Histological examination of the heart ventricles was also performed. Heart failure in rats treated with isoproterenol was indicated by myocardial histopathological damage and reduced cardiac output. In rats with heart failure, the regional differences in activation-recovery interval prolongation over the ventricular epicardium resulted in increasing heterogeneity in the activation-recovery interval distribution and increasing repolarization heterogeneity of the ventricular subepicardium. Myocardial damage and haemodynamic changes in heart failure induced by isoproterenol were accompanied by significant changes in ventricular repolarization, which were not associated with myocardial hypertrophy.
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| Authors | Valeria Krandycheva, Sergey Kharin, Marina Strelkova, Konstantin Shumikhin, Aleksey Sobolev, Dmitry Shmakov |
| Journal | Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology (Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol) Vol. 40 Issue 7 Pg. 431-7 (Jul 2013) ISSN: 1440-1681 [Electronic] Australia |
| PMID | 23647125 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't) |
| Copyright | © 2013 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. |
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