Antipsychotic drugs often lead to adverse effects, including those related to the cardiovascular system. Of these, quetiapine is known to cause significant changes in the QT interval although the underlying mechanism remains mysterious, prompting us to examine its effects on cardiac electrophysiological properties. Therefore, we investigated the effect of quetiapine on contraction, action potential (AP), and the associated membrane currents such as L-type Ca and K using the whole-cell patch clamp method to examine its impacts on isolated rat ventricular myocytes. Our results showed that (1) quetiapine reduces cell contractility in a concentration-dependent manner and (2) leads to a significant prolongation in the duration of AP in isolated ventricular myocytes. This effect was both concentration and frequency-dependent; (3) quetiapine significantly decreased the Ca, transient outward K, and steady-state K currents. However, only high concentration of quetiapine (100 μM) could significantly change the activation and reactivation kinetics of L-type Ca channels. This study demonstrates that QT extension induced by quetiapine is mainly associated with the prolongation of AP. Moreover, quetiapine caused a significant decrease in contractile force and excitability of ventricular myocytes by suppressing Ca and K currents.
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