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The mutual actions of magnesium, calcium and sodium ions on spontaneous impuls generation of isolated guinea-pig atria were investigated. Atria suspended in magnesiumfree bicarbonate buffered solution containing only 0.08 mM calcium exhibit a high, sometimes irregular spontaneous activity. A stepwise addition of calciumchloride leads to 3 characteristic changes in steady state beat interval (s.s.b.i.): increase in s.s.b.i., maximum at 0.31–0.62 mM calcium, then a decrease in s.s.b.i., minimum at 5–10 mM calcium, and then again an increase in s.s.b.i. up to a concentration of 15 mM calcium. The possible role of neurotransmittors in mediating this chronotropic effects was excluded by use of specific antagonists, atropin (1 mg/l) and pronethalol (1 and 5 mg/l).
Magnesium exerts a pure negative chronotropic action which is not influenced by atropin. The increases in s.s.b.i. caused by stepwise addition of magnesiumsulfate to the bathing fluid are linearely proportional to the magnesium concentration. The magnitude of this negative chronotropic action depends largely on the concentration of both, sodium and calcium ions present in the bathing fluid. Either reduction of the sodium concentration to 50% or reduction of the calcium concentration to 25% each approximately double the effects of magnesium on s.s.b.i. Equieffective magnesium concentrations with respect to its chronotropic action in bath fluids of various sodium- and calcium concentrations could be calculated. The possibility of a competition of sodium, calcium and magnesium ions for common anionic sites is discussed.
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Ein Teil dieser Arbeit wurde an der 69. Tagung des Schweiz. Vereins für Physiologie, Physiologische Chemie und Pharmakologie am 27./28. Mai 1967 in Genf vorgetragen.
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Schaer, H. Antagonistische Wirkungen von Magnesium-, Calcium-und Natriumionen auf die Impulsbildung im Sinusknoten des Meerschweinchenherzens. Pflügers Archiv 298, 359–371 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00363875
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