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. 1981;319:23–41. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1981.sp013889

Effect of rate-dependent changes in the transient outward current on the action potential in sheep Purkinje fibres.

M R Boyett
PMCID: PMC1243819  PMID: 7320913

Abstract

1. The rate of membrane potential change during the initial phase of rapid repolarization of the action potential in sheep Purkinje fibres has been measured by electronic differentiation. 2. Phase-plane analysis has revealed that the potential dependence of rapid repolarization corresponds to the potential range over which the transient outward current , Ito, is recorded in voltage clamp experiments. 3. The initial rate of repolarization is strongly rate-dependent and it is markedly reduced at high rates. 4. The effect of high rates of stimulation on the phase-plane diagram is consistent with a reduction in I. 5. After an increase or decrease in rate there is an abrupt change in the initial rate of repolarization in the first response followed by slower changes over several hundred responses. 6. Recovery of the initial rate of repolarization occurs in two distinct phases after repetitive to activity: there is a rapid, approximately exponential phase of recovery in the first 10 s which is followed by a slower phase of recovery lasting several hundred seconds. 7. The rate-dependent changes in the initial rate of repolarization are abolished by 4-aminopyridine, 0.5-1.0 mmol/l. 8. It is concluded that the rate-dependent changes in the initial phase of repolarization are due to the similar changes in Ito described in a companion paper (Boyett, 1981). 9. Rate-dependent changes in peak tension have been measured and they bear no relationship to the changes in the initial rate of repolarization. It is concluded that the major component of the transient outward current in sheep Purkinje fibers is unlikely to be a Ca-activated current

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