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Protection Against Cardiac Injury By Small Ca2 +-Sensitive K+ Channels Identified In Guinea Pig Cardiac Inner Mitochondrial Membrane, David F. Stowe, Ashish K. Gadicherla, Yifan Zhou, Mohammed Aldakkak, Qunli Cheng, Wai-Meng Kwok, Ming Tao Jiang, James S. Heisner, Meiying Yang, Amadou K.S. Camara

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

We tested if small conductance, Ca^{2 +}‐sensitive K⁺ channels (SK_Ca) precondition hearts against ischemia reperfusion (IR) injury by improving mitochondrial (m) bioenergetics, if O₂‐derived free radicals are required to initiate protection via SK_Ca channels, and, importantly, if SK_Ca channels are present in cardiac cell inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM). NADH and FAD, superoxide (O₂⁻), and m[Ca^{2 +}] were measured in guinea pig isolated hearts by fluorescence spectrophotometry. SK_Ca and IK_Ca channel opener DCEBIO (DCEB) was given for 10 min and ended 20 min before IR. …