PMID- 9772088 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19981022 LR - 20191210 IS - 0300-483X (Print) IS - 0300-483X (Linking) VI - 129 IP - 2-3 DP - 1998 Aug 21 TI - Phencyclidine block of Ca2+ ATPase in rat heart sarcoplasmic reticulum. PG - 95-102 AB - Phencyclidine hydrochloride (PCP) also known as Angel Dust is a very potent psychotomimetic drug of abuse. Besides its central nervous system (CNS) effects PCP produces a number of adverse effects in a variety of tissues including the cardiovascular system. Since PCP is known to alter the cellular calcium homeostasis the present studies were initiated to determine the changes in cardiac Ca2+ ATPase activity in rats treated with PCP. For in vitro studies the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) fractions prepared from normal rats were incubated with 25, 50 and 100 microM PCP and the enzyme activities were estimated. Whereas, for in vivo studies the cardiac SR fractions prepared from rats treated with PCP (10 mg/kg body wt. single dose, intra-peritoneally (i.p.)) and sacrificed at different time intervals were used. PCP reduced the Ca2+ ATPase activity significantly both in vitro and in vivo. A 50% inhibition of the enzyme activity was obtained with 100 microM PCP in vitro. A significant reduction of SR Ca2+ ATPase was also evident as early as 1 h after treatment of rats with PCP. The reduction of Ca2+ ATPase activity in SR was irreversible even at 12 h after treatment. The in vitro kinetic studies revealed that PCP was found to be a competitive inhibitor of Ca2+ ATPase with respect to the substrate, ATP, and non-competitive with respect to Ca2+ activation. These results indicate that PCP alters the myocardial Ca2+ homeostasis by inhibiting the Ca2+ ATPase in cardiac SR in rats. Inhibition of SR Ca2+ ATPase may result in the impairment of contraction and relaxation coupling processes in the myocardium. FAU - Pande, M AU - Pande M AD - Department of Neurology, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson 39216-4505, USA. FAU - Cameron, J A AU - Cameron JA FAU - Vig, P J AU - Vig PJ FAU - Desaiah, D AU - Desaiah D LA - eng GR - T32 HL 07635/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - Ireland TA - Toxicology JT - Toxicology JID - 0361055 RN - EC 7.2.2.10 (Calcium-Transporting ATPases) RN - J1DOI7UV76 (Phencyclidine) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Calcium/metabolism MH - Calcium-Transporting ATPases/*antagonists & inhibitors MH - Heart/*drug effects MH - Male MH - Myocardium/enzymology MH - Phencyclidine/*toxicity MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Sarcoplasmic Reticulum/*drug effects/enzymology EDAT- 1998/10/15 00:00 MHDA- 1998/10/15 00:01 CRDT- 1998/10/15 00:00 PHST- 1998/10/15 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1998/10/15 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1998/10/15 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0300-483X(98)00061-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0300-483x(98)00061-4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Toxicology. 1998 Aug 21;129(2-3):95-102. doi: 10.1016/s0300-483x(98)00061-4.