DIFFERENCES IN FORCE-FREQUENCY RELATIONSHIPS AND CALCIUM DEPENDENCY BETWEEN ELASMOBRANCH AND TELEOST HEARTS

acanthias), black dogfish (Etmopterus spinax), sea raven (Hemitripterus americanus), cod (Gadus morhua), hagfish (Myxine glutinosa) and white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) were mounted for isometric force recording. Force development was assessed as a function of external calcium concentration...

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Main Authors: R. Driedzic, Hans Gesser
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1988
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.322.8713
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/140/1/227.full.pdf
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Summary:acanthias), black dogfish (Etmopterus spinax), sea raven (Hemitripterus americanus), cod (Gadus morhua), hagfish (Myxine glutinosa) and white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) were mounted for isometric force recording. Force development was assessed as a function of external calcium concentration and frequency of contraction. Post-rest potentiation was determined in skate and the teleost species to assess indirectly calcium storage capacities. Sea raven and cod preparations were also treated with ryanodine to assess the importance of calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Ventricle strips from skate and black dogfish showed a five-fold increase in force development when external calcium was raised from a physiological to a saturating level. Force development by ventricle strips from other species tested increased by only about 50 % over the same range of calcium concentration. For all elasmobranchs tested, an elevation in frequency of contraction of ventricle strips resulted first in an increase and subsequently in a decrease in force development. The apices of the curves were well within the physiological range of