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. 2024 May 8.
doi: 10.1007/s10974-024-09669-5. Online ahead of print.

Danicamtiv affected isometric force and cross-bridge kinetics similarly in skinned myocardial strips from male and female rats

Peter O Awinda  1 , Blake J Vander Top  1 , Kyrah L Turner  2 , Bertrand C W Tanner  3   4
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Danicamtiv affected isometric force and cross-bridge kinetics similarly in skinned myocardial strips from male and female rats

Peter O Awinda et al. J Muscle Res Cell Motil. .

Abstract

Myotropes are pharmaceuticals that have recently been developed or are under investigation for the treatment of heart diseases. Myotropes have had varied success in clinical trials. Initial research into myotropes have widely focused on animal models of cardiac dysfunction in comparison with normal animal cardiac physiology-primarily using males. In this study we examined the effect of danicamtiv, which is one type of myotrope within the class of myosin activators, on contractile function in permeabilized (skinned) myocardial strips from male and female Sprague-Dawley rats. We found that danicamtiv increased steady-state isometric force production at sub-maximal calcium levels, leading to greater Ca2+-sensitivity of contraction for both sexes. Danicamtiv did not affect maximal Ca2+-activated force for either sex. Sinusoidal length-perturbation analysis was used to assess viscoelastic myocardial stiffness and cross-bridge cycling kinetics. Data from these measurements did not vary with sex, and the data suggest that danicamtiv slows cross-bridge cycling kinetics. These findings imply that danicamtiv increases force production via increasing cross-bridge contributions to activation of contraction, especially at sub-maximal Ca2+-activation. The inclusion of both sexes in animal models during the formative stages of drug development could be helpful for understanding the efficacy or limitation of a drug's therapeutic impact on cardiac function.

Keywords: Cardiac muscle; Contraction; Cross-bridge kinetics; Myotrope.

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