Bioglycans isolated from chaga in a concentration of 0.0001% reduced frequency of action potential in venous sinus cells of
frog heart during the first 15–30 min of exposure, then this parameter increased by 10% per hour over 3.5 h, and was 41±3
min
−1 from the 4th to the 20th hour of incubation. The frequency of action potentials in heart strips in the chaga extract was
40% higher than in Ringer's solution. The effect of chaga bioglycan is probably associated with adsorption on myocyte membranes.
Binding of Ca
2+ to bioglycans observed during the first 30 min inhibited efflux of intracellular Ca
2+.
Key Words
chag
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bioglycans
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action potential
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pacemaker
Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 128, No. 9, pp. 264–266, September, 1999