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Short-Long Heart Rate Variation Increases Dispersion of Action Potential Duration in Long QT Type 2 Transgenic Rabbit Model
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Nature Publishing Group UK, 2019.
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Abstract
- The initiation of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in long QT syndrome type 2 (LQT2) has been associated with a characteristic ECG pattern of short-long RR intervals. We hypothesize that this characteristic pattern increases APD dispersion in LQT2, thereby promoting arrhythmia. We investigated APD dispersion and its dependence on two previous cycle lengths (CLs) in transgenic rabbit models of LQT2, LQT1, and their littermate controls (LMC) using random stimulation protocols. The results show that the short-long RR pattern was associated with a larger APD dispersion in LQT2 but not in LQT1 rabbits. The multivariate analyses of APD as a function of two previous CLs (APDn = C + α1CLn−1 + α2CLn−2) showed that α1 (APD restitution slope) is largest and heterogeneous in LQT2 but uniform in LQT1, enhancing APD dispersion under long CLn−1 in LQT2. The α2 (short-term memory) was negative in LQT2 while positive in LQT1, and the spatial pattern of α1 was inversely correlated to α2 in LQT2, which explains why a short-long combination causes a larger APD dispersion in LQT2 but not in LQT1 rabbits. In conclusion, short-long RR pattern increased APD dispersion only in LQT2 rabbits through heterogeneous APD restitution and the short-term memory, underscoring the genotype-specific triggering of arrhythmias in LQT syndrome.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
Long QT syndrome
Transgene
lcsh:Medicine
Action Potentials
Stimulation
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Arrhythmias
Ventricular tachycardia
Article
Animals, Genetically Modified
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Heart Rate
Internal medicine
Heart rate
Dispersion (optics)
medicine
Animals
lcsh:Science
Multidisciplinary
Chemistry
musculoskeletal, neural, and ocular physiology
lcsh:R
Heart rate variation
Heart
medicine.disease
Long QT Syndrome
030104 developmental biology
Cardiovascular diseases
Cardiology
cardiovascular system
Action potential duration
lcsh:Q
Female
Rabbits
circulatory and respiratory physiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f17eb8db9626f4d060ea861853f74af7