Difference of Sodium Currents between Pediatric and Adult Human Atrial Myocytes: Evidence for Developmental Changes of Sodium Channels

Cai, Benzhi; Mu, Xiaoqin; Gong, Dongmei; Jiang, Shulin; Li, Jianping; Meng, Qingxin; Bai, Yunlong; Liu, Yanju; Wang, Xinyue; Tan, Xueying; Yang, Baofeng; Lu, Yanjie

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Difference of Sodium Currents between Pediatric and Adult Human Atrial Myocytes: Evidence for Developmental Changes of Sodium Channels

Benzhi Cai^1*, Xiaoqin Mu^1*, Dongmei Gong¹, Shulin Jiang³, Jianping Li¹, Qingxin Meng³, Yunlong Bai¹, Yanju Liu¹, Xinyue Wang¹, Xueying Tan¹, Baofeng Yang^1,2, Yanjie Lu^{1,2 ✉}

1. Department of Pharmacology (the State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine- Pharmaceutics of China, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, Ministry of Education), Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
2. Cardiovascular Research Institute, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
3. Department of Cardiosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
* The first two authors made equal contribution to this research.

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Cai B, Mu X, Gong D, Jiang S, Li J, Meng Q, Bai Y, Liu Y, Wang X, Tan X, Yang B, Lu Y. Difference of Sodium Currents between Pediatric and Adult Human Atrial Myocytes: Evidence for Developmental Changes of Sodium Channels. Int J Biol Sci 2011; 7(6):708-714. doi:10.7150/ijbs.7.708. https://www.ijbs.com/v07p0708.htm

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Voltage-gated calcium currents and potassium currents were shown to undergo developmental changes in postnatal human and animal cardiomocytes. However, so far, there is no evidence whether sodium currents also presented the developmental changes in postnatal human atrial cells. The aim of this study was to observe age-related changes of sodium currents between pediatric and adult atrial myocytes. Human atrial myocytes were acutely isolated and the whole-cell patch clamp technique was used to record sodium currents isolated from pediatric and adult atrial cardiomocytes. The peak amplitude of sodium currents recorded in adult atrial cells was significantly larger than that in pediatric atrial myocytes. However, there was no significant difference of the activation voltage for peak sodium currents between two kinds of atrial myocytes. The time constants for the activation and inactivation of sodium currents were smaller in adult atria than pediatric atria. The further study revealed that the voltage-dependent inactivation of sodium currents were more slow in adult atrial cardiomyocytes than pediatric atrial cells. A significant difference was also observed in the recovery process of sodium channel from inactivation. In summary, a few significant differences were demonstrated in sodium currents characteristics between pediatric and adult atrial myocytes, which indicates that sodium currents in human atria also undergo developmental changes.

Keywords: sodium channel, postnatal development, patch clamp, cardiomocytes.

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Cai, B., Mu, X., Gong, D., Jiang, S., Li, J., Meng, Q., Bai, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, X., Tan, X., Yang, B., Lu, Y. (2011). Difference of Sodium Currents between Pediatric and Adult Human Atrial Myocytes: Evidence for Developmental Changes of Sodium Channels. International Journal of Biological Sciences, 7(6), 708-714. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.7.708.

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Cai, B.; Mu, X.; Gong, D.; Jiang, S.; Li, J.; Meng, Q.; Bai, Y.; Liu, Y.; Wang, X.; Tan, X.; Yang, B.; Lu, Y. Difference of Sodium Currents between Pediatric and Adult Human Atrial Myocytes: Evidence for Developmental Changes of Sodium Channels. Int. J. Biol. Sci. 2011, 7 (6), 708-714. DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.7.708.

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Cai B, Mu X, Gong D, Jiang S, Li J, Meng Q, Bai Y, Liu Y, Wang X, Tan X, Yang B, Lu Y. 2011. Difference of Sodium Currents between Pediatric and Adult Human Atrial Myocytes: Evidence for Developmental Changes of Sodium Channels. Int J Biol Sci. 7(6):708-714.

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