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Action potential propagation in transverse-axial tubular system is impaired in heart failure 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Sacconi L Ferrantini C Lotti J Coppini R Yan P Loew LM Tesi C Cerbai E Poggesi C Pavone FS 《Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America》2012,109(15):5815-5819
The plasma membrane of cardiac myocytes presents complex invaginations known as the transverse-axial tubular system (TATS). Despite TATS's crucial role in excitation-contraction coupling and morphological alterations found in pathological settings, TATS's electrical activity has never been directly investigated in remodeled tubular networks. Here we develop an ultrafast random access multiphoton microscope that, in combination with a customly synthesized voltage-sensitive dye, is used to simultaneously measure action potentials (APs) at multiple sites within the sarcolemma with submillisecond temporal and submicrometer spatial resolution in real time. We find that the tight electrical coupling between different sarcolemmal domains is guaranteed only within an intact tubular system. In fact, acute detachment by osmotic shock of most tubules from the surface sarcolemma prevents AP propagation not only in the disconnected tubules, but also in some of the tubules that remain connected with the surface. This indicates that a structural disorganization of the tubular system worsens the electrical coupling between the TATS and the surface. The pathological implications of this finding are investigated in failing hearts. We find that AP propagation into the pathologically remodeled TATS frequently fails and may be followed by local spontaneous electrical activity. Our findings provide insight on the relationship between abnormal TATS and asynchronous calcium release, a major determinant of cardiac contractile dysfunction and arrhythmias. 相似文献
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Borrelli Enrico Grosso Domenico Vella Giovanna Sacconi Riccardo Querques Lea Zucchiatti Ilaria Prascina Francesco Bandello Francesco Querques Giuseppe 《Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie》2020,258(12):2655-2660
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - To quantify the shrinking in outpatient and intravitreal injections’ volumes in a tertiary referral retina unit secondary to... 相似文献
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Giuseppe de Vito Lapo Turrini Caroline Müllenbroich Pietro Ricci Giuseppe Sancataldo Giacomo Mazzamuto Natascia Tiso Leonardo Sacconi Duccio Fanelli Ludovico Silvestri Francesco Vanzi Francesco Saverio Pavone 《Biomedical optics express》2022,13(3):1516
Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) enables real-time whole-brain functional imaging in zebrafish larvae. Conventional one-photon LSFM can however induce undesirable visual stimulation due to the use of visible excitation light. The use of two-photon (2P) excitation, employing near-infrared invisible light, provides unbiased investigation of neuronal circuit dynamics. However, due to the low efficiency of the 2P absorption process, the imaging speed of this technique is typically limited by the signal-to-noise-ratio. Here, we describe a 2P LSFM setup designed for non-invasive imaging that enables quintuplicating state-of-the-art volumetric acquisition rate of the larval zebrafish brain (5 Hz) while keeping low the laser intensity on the specimen. We applied our system to the study of pharmacologically-induced acute seizures, characterizing the spatial-temporal dynamics of pathological activity and describing for the first time the appearance of caudo-rostral ictal waves (CRIWs). 相似文献
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Salviati L Sacconi S Rasalan MM Kronn DF Braun A Canoll P Davidson M Shanske S Bonilla E Hays AP Schon EA DiMauro S 《Archives of neurology》2002,59(5):862-865
BACKGROUND: Mutations in the SCO2 gene have been associated with fatal cardioencephalomyopathy. OBJECTIVE: To report a novel SCO2 mutation with prominent spinal cord involvement mimicking spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffmann disease). PATIENT AND METHODS: An infant girl presented at birth with generalized weakness, hypotonia, and lactic acidosis. At 1 month of age she developed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and died of heart failure 1 month later. Neuroradiological studies were unremarkable. Muscle biopsy specimens showed groups of atrophic and hypertrophic fibers, but mutation screening of the SMN gene was negative. Histochemical and biochemical studies of respiratory chain complexes were performed, and the whole coding region of the SCO2 gene was sequenced. RESULTS: Findings from muscle histochemistry studies showed virtually undetectable cytochrome c oxidase activity, but normal succinate dehydrogenase reaction. Biochemical analysis in muscle confirmed a severe isolated cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. Pathologic findings of the brain were unremarkable, but the ventral horns of the spinal cord showed moderate-to-severe loss of motor neurons and astrocytosis. Sequencing of the SCO2 gene showed the common E140K mutation, and a novel 10 base-pair duplication of nucleotides 1302 to 1311, which disrupts the reading frame of the messenger RNA and gives rise to a truncated protein. CONCLUSION: The SCO2 mutations should be considered in the differential diagnosis of children with spinal muscular atrophy without mutations in the SMN gene. 相似文献
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Tay SK Sacconi S Akman HO Morales JF Morales A De Vivo DC Shanske S Bonilla E DiMauro S 《Journal of child neurology》2005,20(8):670-674
Mutations in the SURF1 gene are the most frequent causes of Leigh disease with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. We describe four children with novel SURF1 mutations and unusual features: three had prominent renal symptoms and one had ragged red fibers in the muscle biopsy. We identified five pathogenic mutations in SURF1: two mutations were novel, an in-frame nonsense mutation (834G-->A) and an out-of-frame duplication (820-824dupTACAT). Although renal manifestations have not been described in association with SURF1 mutations, they can be part of the clinical presentation. Likewise, mitochondrial proliferation in muscle (with ragged red fibers) is most unusual in Leigh disease but might be part of an emerging phenotype. 相似文献
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Venditti CP Harris MC Huff D Peterside I Munson D Weber HS Rome J Kaye EM Shanske S Sacconi S Tay S DiMauro S Berry GT 《Journal of inherited metabolic disease》2004,27(6):735-739
Biventricular hypertrophy was noted at 24 weeks' gestation in a fetus with isolated cytochrome-c oxidase (COX) deficiency. Shock, caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and severe pulmonary hypertension, led to the patient's death on day 6. His phenotype defines a new lethal variant of COX deficiency characterized by prenatal-onset cardiopulmonary pathophysiology. 相似文献
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Jessica C. de Greef Richard J.L.F. Lemmers Baziel G.M. van Engelen Sabrina Sacconi Shannon L. Venance Rune R. Frants Rabi Tawil Silvère M. van der Maarel 《Human mutation》2009,30(10):1449-1459
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), caused by partial deletion of the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat on chromosome 4q, has a complex genetic and epigenetic etiology. To develop FSHD, D4Z4 contraction needs to occur on a specific genetic background. Only contractions associated with the 4qA161 haplotype cause FSHD. In addition, contraction of the D4Z4 repeat in FSHD patients is associated with significant D4Z4 hypomethylation. To date, however, the methylation status of contracted repeats on nonpathogenic haplotypes has not been studied. We have performed a detailed methylation study of the D4Z4 repeat on chromosome 4q and on a highly homologous repeat on chromosome 10q. We show that patients with a D4Z4 deletion (FSHD1) have D4Z4‐restricted hypomethylation. Importantly, controls with a D4Z4 contraction on a nonpathogenic chromosome 4q haplotype or on chromosome 10q also demonstrate hypomethylation. In 15 FSHD families without D4Z4 contractions but with at least one 4qA161 haplotype (FSHD2), we observed D4Z4‐restricted hypomethylation on chromosomes 4q and 10q. This finding implies that a genetic defect resulting in D4Z4 hypomethylation underlies FSHD2. In conclusion, we describe two ways to develop FSHD: (1) contraction‐dependent or (2) contraction‐independent D4Z4 hypomethylation on the 4qA161 subtelomere. Hum Mutat 30:1–11, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. 相似文献