Background: To understand the relationship between myocardial contractility and external stimuli, detecting ex vivo myocardial contractility is necessary.
Methods: We elaborated a method for contractility detection of isolated C57 mouse papillary muscle using Myostation-Intact system under different frequencies, voltages, and calcium concentrations.
Results: The results indicated that the basal contractility of the papillary muscle was 0.27 ± 0.03 mN at 10 V, 500-ms pulse duration, and 1 Hz. From 0.1 to 1.0 Hz, contractility decreased with an increase in frequency (0.45 ± 0.11-0.10 ± 0.02 mN). The voltage-initiated muscle contractility varied from 3 to 6 V, and the contractility gradually increased as the voltage increased from 6 to 10 V (0.14 ± 0.02-0.28 ± 0.03 mN). Moreover, the muscle contractility increased when the calcium concentration was increased from 1.5 to 3 mM (0.45 ± 0.17-1.11 ± 0.05 mN); however, the contractility stopped increasing even when the concentration was increased to 7.5 mM (1.02 ± 0.23 mN).
Conclusions: Our method guaranteed the survivability of papillary muscle ex vivo and provided instructions for Myostation-Intact users for isolated muscle contractility investigations.
Keywords: Myostation-intact; calcium concentration; frequency; isolated papillary muscle; muscle contractility; voltage.
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