Abstract
We examined intracellular calcium transients of isolated single cardiac myocytes from rats with doxorubicin (DOX)-induced cardiomyopathy with simultaneous measurement of cell motion. DOX was administered i.p. to Sprague-Dawley rats at 2.5 mg/kg once a week for 10 weeks. Field-stimulated calcium transients and simultaneous cell motion in single myocytes were measured in the presence or absence of isoproterenol using fura-2/AM. Histopathologic examination revealed slight changes. The time courses of both calcium transients and cell motion were significantly prolonged by DOX. There was a slight but not significant reduction in parameters of contractility in both calcium transients and cell motion. The beta-adrenoceptor responsiveness of both calcium transients and cell motion was not significantly impaired compared with the controls. Our data indicated that, despite the slight histologic changes in the heart in DOX-induced cardiomyopathy, impaired sequestration of intracellular free calcium ions in individual myocytes may be one factor leading to diastolic dysfunction. Monitoring of diastolic function is important to detect early cardiotoxicity caused by DOX.
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