Nature, significance, and mechanisms of electrical heterogeneities in ventricle

The Anatomical Record. Part A, Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology
Steven Poelzing, David S Rosenbaum

Abstract

Previously, dispersion of repolarization (DOR) has been extensively linked to the development of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. The electrical heterogeneities that cause DOR between transmural myocyte layers have been reported in a wide variety of animals and humans. The underlying causes of transmural electrical heterogeneities are in part due to heterogeneous functional expression of proteins responsible for ion handling. Recently, we found that electrophysiologic heterogeneities between subepicardial and midmyocardial cells can form a substrate for reentrant ventricular arrhythmias. However, cell-to-cell coupling through gap junctions is expected to attenuate transmural heterogeneities between cell types spanning the ventricular wall. In this article we review a hypothesis that regional uncoupling resulting from expression patterns of gap junctions across the ventricular wall underlies DOR, and DOR can be amplified under disease conditions which remodel gap junctions. We find the principle gap junction protein, connexin43 (Cx43), is selectively reduced in the subepicardium (by 24%) compared to deeper layers of normal canine left ventricle. Additionally, the greatest DOR occurs within the subepicardial-midmyocardial in...Continue Reading

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