Contactless Magnetocardiographic Mapping in Anesthetized Wistar Rats: Evidence of Age-related Changes of Cardiac Electrical Activity.
From: Biomagnetism Center, Clinical Physiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology
- Publish Date: Jul 2006
- ISSN: 0363-6135
- Volume: 291
- Issue: 1
- Pages: H368-78
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Brisinda Donatella, Caristo Maria Emiliana, Fenici Riccardo, et al. Contactless Magnetocardiographic Mapping in Anesthetized Wistar Rats: Evidence of Age-related Changes of Cardiac Electrical Activity.. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. Jul 2006;291:H368-78
Abstract
Magnetocardiography (MCG) is the recording of the magnetic field (MF) generated by cardiac electrophysiological activity. Because it is a contactless method, MCG is ideal for noninvasive cardiac mapping of small experimental animals. The aim of this study was to assess age-related changes of cardiac intervals and ventricular repolarization (VR) maps in intact rats by means of MCG mapping. Twenty-four adult Wistar rats (12 male and 12 female) were studied, under anesthesia, with the same unshielded 36-channel MCG instrumentation used for clinical recordings. Two sets of measurements were obtained from each animal: 1) at 5 mo of age (297.5 +/- 21 g body wt) and 2) at 14 mo of age (516.8 +/- 180 g body wt). RR and PR intervals, QRS segment, and QTpeak, QTend, JTpeak, JTend, and Tpeak-end were measured from MCG waveforms. MCG imaging was automatically obtained as MF maps and as inverse localization of cardiac sources with equivalent current dipole and effective magnetic dipole models. After 300 s of continuous recording were averaged, the signal-to-noise ratio was adequate for study of atrial and ventricular MF maps and for three-dimensional localization of the underlying cardiac sources. Clear-cut age-related differences in VR duration were demonstrated by significantly longer QTend, JTend, and Tpeak-end in older Wistar rats. Reproducible multisite noninvasive cardiac mapping of anesthetized rats is simpler with MCG methodology than with ECG recording. In addition, MCG mapping provides new information based on quantitative analysis of MF and equivalent sources. In this study, statistically significant age-dependent variations in VR intervals were found.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Adaptation, Physiological, Aging, Anesthesia, Animals, Body Surface Potential Mapping, Databases, Factual, Electrocardiography, Electrodes, Evidence-Based Medicine, Female, Heart Conduction System, Italy, Magnetics, Male, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Reference Values
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