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. 1994 Apr;111(4):1147–1153. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1994.tb14865.x

The effects of propofol and enflurane on single calcium channel currents of guinea-pig isolated ventricular myocytes.

H Takahashi 1, R M Puttick 1, D A Terrar 1
PMCID: PMC1910161  PMID: 8032601

Abstract

1. The effects of the anaesthetics, propofol (100 microM) and enflurane (3%, 1.46 mM), on single L type calcium channel currents were investigated in single myocytes isolated from guinea-pig ventricles. Channel activity was recorded from membrane patches by use of the 'cell-attached' patch-clamp technique (pipette solution containing 110 mM BaCl2, 5 microM Bay K 8644, 5 microM HEPES, pH 7.4; temperature 36 degrees C). 2. Channel conductance was calculated from the slope of the relationship between single channel current and membrane potential during step depolarizations to activate the channel over a range of approximately -20 to +20 mV. Neither propofol (6 cells) nor enflurane (7 cells) caused any significant reduction in channel conductance. 3. Both propofol (7 cells) and enflurane (9 cells) decreased the probability of the channel being open during depolarizations to +10 mV (measured from histograms of the fraction of time spent by the channel at different current levels, taking areas under the Gaussian curves fitted to the open and closed components of the distributions to represent the proportion of time spent in the two states). 4. A fraction of the current traces showed no detectable channel openings in response to step depolarizations to +10 mV. Both propofol and enflurane significantly increased the fraction of silent traces. 5. Transitions across a threshold halfway between the open and closed levels were used to define periods spent in the open and closed states. Both propofol (7 cells) and enflurane (9 cells) reduced the mean open times and increased the mean closed times of the calcium channel.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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