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Mitoxantrone prolonged action potential duration and blocked cardiac muscarinic receptors by inhibiting inward rectifier and delayed rectifier K+ currents in isolated cardiac myocytes.
Mitoxantrone blocks cardiac muscarinic receptors and prolongs action potential duration by inhibiting potassium currents, which may cause early afterdepolarizations and pose an arrhythmogenic hazard.
May signal proarrhythmic risk with mitoxantrone; leaves open clinical translation from isolated myocyte data.
The effects of mitoxantrone (MTO), an anticancer drug, on the membrane electrical properties of cardiac myocytes were investigated using the whole-cell clamp technique. 2. In isolated guinea-pig ventricular myocytes, 30 microM MTO induced a time-dependent prolongation of action potential duration (APD) which was occasionally accompanied by early afterdepolarizations. APD prolongation was preserved in the presence of 10 microM tetrodotoxin and showed reverse rate-dependence. 3. Both the inward rectifier K+ current (I(KI)) and the delayed rectifier K+ current (I(K)) of guinea-pig ventricular myocytes were significantly depressed by 30 microM MTO. The rapidly activating component of I(k) (I(Kr)) seemed to be preferentially blocked by MTO. The transient outward current was not affected by MTO in rat ventricular myocytes. 4. Thirty microM MTO had no direct effect on the L-type Ca2+ current (I(Ca(L))), but reversed the inhibitory effect of 1 microM carbamylcholine but not the A1-adenosine receptor agonist (-)-N6-phenylisopropyladenosine (1 microM) on I(Ca(L)) enhanced by 50 nM isoprenaline in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes. In guinea-pig atrial mycotyes, 30 microM MTO inhibited by 93% the muscarinic receptor gated K+ current (I(K,ACh)) evoked by 1 microM carbamylcholine, whereas I(K,ACh) elicited by 100 microM GTPgammaS, a nonhydrolysable GTP analogue, was only decreased by 12%. 5. The specific binding of [3H]QNB, a muscarinic receptor ligand, to human atrial membranes was concentration-dependently displaced by MTO (1-1000 microM). 6. In conclusion, MTO blocks cardiac muscarinic receptors and prolongs APD by inhibition of I(KI) and I(Kr). The occasionally observed early afterdepolarizations may signify a potential cardiac hazard of the drug.
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Wang et al. (1999) studied this question. Mitoxantrone was evaluated on Action potential duration and membrane currents. Mitoxantrone prolonged action potential duration and blocked cardiac muscarinic receptors by inhibiting inward rectifier and delayed rectifier K+ currents in isolated cardiac myocytes.
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