Lakhe M, Furukawa Y, Yonezawa T, Hirose M, Nagashima Y, Miyashita Y, Chiba S
Department of Pharmacology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Jpn J Pharmacol. 1998 Apr;76(4):435-9. doi: 10.1254/jjp.76.435.
To investigate whether a Ca2+ sensitizer increases sinus rate, we studied the effects of racemic thiadiazinone, EMD 53998 (a Ca2+ sensitizer with phosphodiesterase inhibitory action) and its (+)-enantiomer EMD 57033 (a relatively pure Ca2+ sensitizer) on isolated, blood-perfused spontaneously beating right atria and paced left ventricles of the dogs. EMD 53998 increased sinus rate dose-dependently, but EMD 57033 did not. Both substances increased atrial and ventricular contractile force. Propranolol did not affect the responses to each substance. These results suggest that the Ca2+ sensitizing action induced by EMD 57033 does not affect pacemaker currents directly.
