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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Physiology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Physiology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Российский физиологический журнал им. И.М. Сеченова</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-8139</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2658-655X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">696701</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7868/S2658655X25090077</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>EXPERIMENTAL ARTICLES</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНЫЕ СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Features of length-dependent changes in calcium transients in the ventricular myocardium in rats of different ages</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Особенности длинозависимых изменений кальциевого перехода в миокарде желудочка крыс разного возраста</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Lisin</surname><given-names>R. V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лисин</surname><given-names>Р. В.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>lisin.ruslan@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Balakin</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Балакин</surname><given-names>А. А.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kuznetsov</surname><given-names>D. A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кузнецов</surname><given-names>Д. А.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Zudova</surname><given-names>A. I.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Зудова</surname><given-names>А. И.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Protsenko</surname><given-names>Yu. L.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Проценко</surname><given-names>Ю. Л.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт иммунологии и физиологии УрО РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-09-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>09</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>111</volume><issue>9</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 111, NO9 (2025)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 111, №9 (2025)</issue-title><fpage>1526</fpage><lpage>1544</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-11-21"><day>21</day><month>11</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" start_date="2026-09-15"/></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0869-8139/article/view/696701">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0869-8139/article/view/696701</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The problem of cardiovascular regulation during aging has received insufficient attention, despite its high social significance. The common pathogenesis of cardiovascular regulation disorders in experimental animals and in elderly people makes it relevant to study the mechanisms of myocardial contractility regulation in a comparative experiment on laboratory animals of different ages. In order to establish the features of length-dependent mechanisms of healthy myocardial contractility regulation during aging, length-dependent changes in the characteristics of force, electrical activity and changes in the intracellular concentration of calcium ions (calcium transient or CaT) in the myocardium of the right ventricle of groups of young (1 month) and old (2.5 years) rats were assessed. The experiments were carried out on the trabeculae of the right ventricle of the hearts of male Wistar rats. In the isometric contraction mode, with varying degrees of stretching, the indices of mechanical tension, CaT and transmembrane action potentials (AP) were recorded. It has been experimentally established that old animal has a smaller amplitude of isometric tension, a lower rate of development of isometric tension, and a longer AP in comparison with young animals. For the first time, age-related features of length-dependent changes in the CaT curves obtained at different preloads of the ventricular myocardium, with their superposition, have been established. In old animals, the duration of the CaT decline by 30% of its amplitude is significantly greater than in young animals. The effect of the degree of acto-myosin overlap on the intracellular kinetics of calcium ions in the ventricular myocardium strips of rats of different ages has been shown, using the developed method of the difference of the curves of calcium transients. The relative amplitude and area of segment III of the CaT difference curves are significantly greater in young animals, in comparison with old ones.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Проблеме сердечно-сосудистой регуляции при старении уделяется недостаточно внимания, несмотря на высокую социальную значимость. Общность патогенеза нарушений сердечно-сосудистой регуляции у экспериментальных животных и у пожилых людей делает актуальным изучение механизмов регуляции сократимости миокарда в сравнительном эксперименте на лабораторных животных разного возраста. Для определения особенностей изменения длинозависимых механизмов регуляции сократимости здорового миокарда при старении были оценены характеристики механической и электрической активности и кинетики внутриклеточной концентрации ионов кальция (кальциевый переход или СаТ) в одиночных сокращениях миокарда правого желудочка групп молодых (1 месяц) и старых (2.5 года) крыс. Эксперименты проведены на трабекулах правого желудочка сердец самцов крыс стока Wistar. В изометрическом режиме сокращения при разной степени растяжения были зарегистрированы показатели механического напряжения, СаТ и трансмембранных потенциалов действия (ПД). Экспериментально установлено, что миокард старых животных характеризуется меньшей амплитудой изометрического напряжения, меньшей величиной скорости развития изометрического напряжения, более длительным ПД по сравнению с молодыми животными. Впервые установлены возрастные особенности длинозависимых изменений при суперпозиции кривых СаТ, полученных на разных преднагрузках миокарда желудочка. У старых животных длительность спада СаТ на уровне 30% его амплитуды значительно больше, чем у молодых. Методом разности кривых кальциевых переходов показано влияние преднагрузки на кинетику ионов кальция в кардиомиоцитах многоклеточных полосок миокарда желудочка крыс разного возраста. Так, относительная величина амплитуды и площади сегмента III кривых разностей СаТ значительно больше у молодых животных по сравнению со старыми.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>age-related changes</kwd><kwd>calcium transient</kwd><kwd>action potential</kwd><kwd>length dependence</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>возрастные изменения</kwd><kwd>кальциевый переход</kwd><kwd>потенциал действия</kwd><kwd>длинозависимость</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Работа выполнена при поддержке Российского научного фонда (грант РНФ № 24-24-20063) и Правительства Свердловской области.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Saner H (2005) [Cardiovascular system and aging]. 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