Acute Elevated Glucose Promotes Abnormal Action Potential-Induced Ca2+ Transients in Cultured Skeletal Muscle Fibers

Autor: Martin F. Schneider, Erick O. Hernández-Ochoa, Quinton Banks
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Diabetes Research
Journal of Diabetes Research, Vol 2017 (2017)
ISSN: 2314-6745
DOI: 10.1155/2017/1509048
Popis: A common comorbidity of diabetes is skeletal muscle dysfunction, which leads to compromised physical function. Previous studies of diabetes in skeletal muscle have shown alterations in excitation-contraction coupling (ECC)—the sequential link between action potentials (AP), intracellular Ca2+release, and the contractile machinery. Yet, little is known about the impact of acute elevated glucose on the temporal properties of AP-induced Ca2+transients and ionic underlying mechanisms that lead to muscle dysfunction. Here, we used high-speed confocal Ca2+imaging to investigate the temporal properties of AP-induced Ca2+transients, an intermediate step of ECC, using an acute in cellulo model of uncontrolled hyperglycemia (25 mM, 48 h.). Control and elevated glucose-exposed muscle fibers cultured for five days displayed four distinct patterns of AP-induced Ca2+transients (phasic, biphasic, phasic-delayed, and phasic-slow decay); most control muscle fibers show phasic AP-induced Ca2+transients, while most fibers exposed to elevated D-glucose displayed biphasic Ca2+transients upon single field stimulation. We hypothesize that these changes in the temporal profile of the AP-induced Ca2+transients are due to changes in the intrinsic excitable properties of the muscle fibers. We propose that these changes accompany early stages of diabetic myopathy.
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