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. 1979 Dec;297:163–185. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1979.sp013033

Action of salicylate ions on the electrical properties of sheep cardiac Purkinje fibres.

I Cohen, D Noble, M Ohba, C Ojeda
PMCID: PMC1458713  PMID: 536909

Abstract

1. In sheep Purkinje fibre preparations, salicylate ions produce reversible changes in resting potential and in action potential duration. In most preparations these effects resemble those produced by -ow extracellular K concentration: the resting potential first increases and then decreases, the action potential is prolonged and eventually, low potential oscillations occur in the plateau range. In a few preparations, action potential shortening occurs. 2. The threshold current for initiating action potentials by an intracellular electrode is reversibly increased by salicylate. 3. The activation curve, soo(Em), for the pace-maker K current, iK2, shifted in a hyperpolarizing direction. The magnitude of the shift is about -5 mV in 5 mM-salicylate and -30 mV in 50 mM-salicylate. 4. The apparent reversal potential for iK2 is shifted in a negative direction. The magnitude of this shift at a given salicylate concent;ation varies with the K concentration. In an extracellular K concentration of 2.7 mM an average shift of -18 mV occurs in 10 mM-salicylate; in 8 mM, the average shift is only -1 mV. 5. It is proposed that most of these effects may be produced by an increase in surface negative potential produced by the binding of salicylate to the cell membrane. This would produce the hyperpolarizing shift of activation curves for ionic current and, by increasing surface K activity, may lead to stimulation of the Na-K pump to produce an increase in the K gradient across the cell membrane.

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