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Anesthesiology. 1992 Jan;76(1):123-31. doi: 10.1097/00000542-199201000-00018.

Differential effects of halothane, enflurane, and isoflurane on Ca2+ transients and papillary muscle tension in guinea pigs.

Anesthesiology

Z J Bosnjak, A Aggarwal, L A Turner, J M Kampine, J P Kampine

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226.

PMID: 1729916 DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199201000-00018
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Abstract

These studies were designed to examine the effects of inhalational anesthetics on rapid changes in myocardial intracellular Ca2+ and Ca2+ sensitivity of the contractile apparatus. The effects of halothane, enflurane, and isoflurane on rapid changes in intracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+ transients as measured with bioluminescent protein aequorin) and contractile characteristics were compared in guinea pig right ventricular papillary muscles. In addition to examination of their potencies at equianesthetic concentrations, the effects of these agents on alterations in Ca2+ sensitivity at myofilaments were also investigated. The negative inotropic effects of halothane (0.65 and 1.15%) and enflurane (1.0 and 2.2%) were dose-dependent and closely related to a decrease in Ca2+ transients. In the presence of isoflurane (0.77 and 1.6%), the contractile force decreased in a dose-dependent manner, but the decrease was significantly less as compared to that with equianesthetic concentrations of halothane and enflurane. An additional feature observed in the presence of isoflurane was a dissociation between intracellular Ca2+ availability and contractile force. Although the magnitude of the Ca2+ transients did not change when the percentage of isoflurane was increased from 0.77 to 1.6, the contractile force decreased. Because of these findings, the effects of halothane (1.2%), enflurane (2.2%), and isoflurane (1.6%) on the relationship between intracellular Ca2+ and tension developed in the papillary muscle were examined in order to assess myofibrillar responsiveness to Ca2+. The results indicate that only isoflurane slightly but significantly shifted the Ca2+/isometric tension curve toward higher intracellular Ca2+ concentrations; no differences were observed in the absence and presence of equianesthetic concentrations of halothane and enflurane.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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