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• W1566552624 abstract "Non-technical summary What is known about gastric electrophysiology and used in motility clinics throughout the world is mostly deduced from animal studies and extracellular recordings from human patients. Extracellular recording from gastrointestinal muscles, however, is prone to extensive motion artifact, and it is not clear that animal models can be translated directly to human physiology. Therefore, we have performed a detailed analysis of electrical activity from carefully mapped specimens of gastric muscle removed from humans during surgery for gastric cancers. Our data show several important differences in electrical activity recorded with intracellular microelectrodes and accepted gastric electrophysiological dogma. We observed ongoing electrical slow wave activity in the gastric fundus; we also found no evidence for a slow wave frequency gradient. Muscles from all regions through the thickness of the muscularis demonstrated intrinsic pacemaker activity, and this corresponded with the widespread distribution of pacemaker cells. Abstract Extracellular electrical recording and studies using animal models have helped establish important concepts of human gastric physiology. Accepted standards include electrical quiescence in the fundus, 3 cycles per minute (cpm) pacemaker activity in corpus and antrum, and a proximal-to-distal slow wave frequency gradient. We investigated slow wave pacemaker activity, contractions and distribution of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) in human gastric muscles. Muscles were obtained from patients undergoing gastric resection for cancer, and the anatomical locations of each specimen were mapped by the operating surgeon to 16 standardized regions of the stomach. Electrical slow waves were recorded with intracellular microelectrodes and contractions were recorded by isometric force techniques. Slow waves were routinely recorded from gastric fundus muscles. These events had similar waveforms as slow waves in more distal regions and were coupled to phasic contractions. Gastric slow wave frequency was significantly greater than 3 cpm in all regions of the stomach. Antral slow wave frequency often exceeded the highest frequency of pacemaker activity in the corpus. Chronotropic mechanisms such as muscarinic and prostaglandin receptor binding, stretch, extracelluar Ca2+ and temperature were unable to explain the observed slow wave frequency that exceeded accepted normal levels. Muscles from all regions through the thickness of the muscularis demonstrated intrinsic pacemaker activity, and this corresponded with the widespread distribution in ICC we mapped throughout the tunica muscularis. Our findings suggest that extracellular electrical recording has underestimated human slow wave frequency and mechanisms of human gastric function may differ from standard laboratory animal models. Many of the principles of human gastric physiology and pathophysiology come from animal studies, most commonly using dog, guinea-pig and mouse (Weber & Koatsu, 1970; Hinder & Kelly, 1977; el-Sharkawy et al. 1978; Morgan et al. 1981; Ozaki et al. 1991; Burns et al. 1996; Dickens et al. 1999; Ordög et al. 1999; 2000; Kito & Suzuki, 2003; Lammers et al. 2009). There have been relatively few studies of human gastric muscles (el-Sharkawy et al. 1978; Hara & Ito, 1979; Sanger, 1985; Min et al. 2010) so it is uncertain whether the mechanisms and patterns of gastric activation, receptive relaxation and peristalsis in laboratory animals translate to human gastric physiology. Standard accepted concepts in human gastric electrophysiology include: (i) electrical quiescence in the fundus, (ii) a dominant slow wave frequency of 3 cycles per minute (cpm), and (iii) an intrinsic slow wave frequency gradient where faster proximal pacemakers dominate over slower distal pacemakers. A previous study using intracellular recording, reported slow wave frequencies above what is considered normal for human gastric muscles (i.e. 6 cpm in corpus and 4 cpm in antrum), but there were too few corpus muscles in this study to contest results obtained by extracellular recordings (el-Sarkawy et al. 1978). Phasic contractions of human fundus, corpus and antrum muscles were recently shown to exceed 5 cpm (Min et al. 2010). Phasic contractions are timed by slow waves, so these studies raised several questions: (i) are slow waves present in human fundus? (ii) has slow wave frequency been underestimated by extracellular recording? and (iii) does a proximal-to-distal slow wave frequency gradient exist in human stomach? These are fundamental questions in understanding human gastric physiology and establishing parameters of ‘abnormal activity’. For example, some clinicians, utilizing electrogastrography (EGG) to evaluate symptoms of dyspepsia, gastroparesis or other motility disorders, attempt to determine whether slow wave frequency conforms to accepted ‘normal’ limits of 2–4 cpm (Koch, 2001; Lin & Chen, 2001; Leung et al. 2006; Sha et al. 2009). However, the correlation between symptoms and slow wave frequency, as assessed by EGG, is not strong (Jebbink et al. 1994; Smout et al. 1994; Chen et al. 1996; Parkman et al. 1997), and reasons for this need to be clarified. We have characterized basal electrical rhythm of slow waves in human gastric muscles, using intracellular recording techniques. Our data suggest that the 3 cpm ‘standard’ for slow wave frequency needs reconsideration. We have found that gastric fundus muscles generate electrical slow waves that underlie phasic contractions. We also found no evidence for a proximal-to-distal frequency gradient. These findings challenge many basic concepts of human gastric electrophysiology and suggest that methods and standards for clinical evaluation of gastric electromechanical function need reconsideration. Tissues were obtained as surgical waste from 57 patients (40 males, 17 females with an average age of 62.1 ± 1.6 years; 32–83 years) undergoing gastric cancer surgery in Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. The anatomical locations from which the surgical samples were removed were noted on gastric maps by the performing surgeon (Fig. 1A and B). Non-cancerous margins were placed in Krebs–Ringer buffer (KRB) and transported to the laboratory within 15 min for electrophysiological and contractile studies and processed immediately for morphological studies. The Samsung Medical Center Human Subjects Research Committee approved protocols. Written, informed consent was obtained from patients and all experiments complied with the Declaration of Helsinki. Muscles were retrieved from the fundus (12; regions 1–4), corpus (22; regions 5–12) and antrum (26; 13–16; see Fig. 1A and B). Map of stomach and techniques to record electrical and contractile activity in human stomach A, sketch of stomach and major regions referred to in text. B, schematic map of stomach used by surgeons to demarcate region from which surgical samples were obtained. Regions 1–4 correspond to the fundus, regions 5–12 correspond to the corpus, and regions 13–16 correspond to the antrum. PS, pyloric sphincter; LES, lower esophageal sphincter. GC and LC represent greater and lesser curvatures, respectively. C, sketch of cross-sectional muscle strip with a microelectrode to record intracellular electrical activity and attachment of a force transducer at one end to record isometric contractions or stretch. D, simultaneous recording from antrum (region 14) showing one-to-one relationship between electrical slow waves and phasic contractions. Gastric tissues were pinned in a dissecting dish, and mucosa and submucosa were removed. Cross-sectional strips of muscle (1 × 20 mm), through the tunica muscularis, were cut transverse or parallel to the circular muscle (CM) fibres (Figs 1C and 2). The muscles were transferred to an electrophysiological chamber and pinned out in cross section with little stretch beyond resting length. Some muscles were attached to a force transducer (Gould UC3; Gould Instruments, OH, USA) for simultaneous recordings of electrical and mechanical activity (Fig. 1D). In other experiments the CM and longitudinal muscle (LM) were dissected into four layers (Fig. 2). Additional dissections included isolation of muscle bundles (≤1 mm). Intracellular recording (at 37 ± 0.5°C) was begun after 1 h equilibration as previously described (Hwang et al. 2009). Briefly, cells were impaled with microelectrodes (70–100 MΩ), and transmembrane potentials were measured with a high input impedance amplifier (Axon Instruments/Molecular Devices Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA). Electrical and mechanical signals were digitized (Digidata 1300 series; Axon Instruments) and stored using Axoscope 10.0 software. Dissections of gastric muscles to obtain subsections for intracellular electrical recordings A, a phase-contrast image of a montage through the full-thickness of the human gastric antrum muscularis. Note the marked division of the circular muscle layer into bundles separated by broad septae (arrows). Higher magnifications are denoted by arrows. B, full thickness strips cut parallel to either the circular or the longitudinal muscle layers. Strips parallel to the circular muscle were used to cut subregional muscle bundles (C) from the submucosal circular, which consisted of: circular muscle adjacent to the submucosa (a), interior/bulk circular muscle bundles consisting of circular muscle fibres in the central 1/3 of the circular layer (b), or myenteric regions of the circular muscle layer (c). Longitudinal strips were used to cut subregions of longitudinal muscles which were dissected into an inner longitudinal layer with myenteric plexus attached (d) and an outer bulk longitudinal layer adjacent to the serosal surface (e). The distribution and cellular localization of Kit and Ano-1/TMEM16A were examined by immunohistochemistry on cryostat sections, as previously described (Hwang et al. 2009). Sections were examined with a Zeiss LSM 510 Meta confocal microscope (Carl Zeiss, Thornwood, NY, USA) with an excitation wavelength (488 and 594 nm). Confocal micrographs are digital composites of Z-series scans of 10–100 optical sections through a depth of 4–100 μm. The muscles were perfused with oxygenated Krebs–Ringer buffer (KRB) of the following composition (mm): NaCl 118.5; KCl 4.5; MgCl2 1.2; NaHCO3 23.8; KH2PO4 1.2; dextrose 11.0; CaCl2 2.5. The pH of the KRB was 7.3–7.4 when bubbled with 97% O2–3% CO2 at 37 ± 0.5°C. Atropine, tetrodotoxin and nickel (Sigma-Aldrich Corp., St Louis, MO, USA) were dissolved as stock solutions in dH2O; nifedipine and indomethacin (Sigma-Aldrich) were dissolved in ethanol before being added to the perfusion solution at the concentrations stated. Data are expressed as means ± standard errors of the mean. Student's t test was used where appropriate to evaluate differences in the data. P values ≤0.05 were taken as a statistically significant difference. The n values reported in the text refer to the number of muscles used for each experimental protocol. The parameters of slow waves were tabulated as described previously (Horiguchi et al. 2001). Spontaneous phasic contractions of human fundus muscles (regions 1–4; Fig. 1) were reported previously (Min et al. 2010), but others have claimed this region is electrically quiescent based on extracellular recording (O’Grady et al. 2010). We found that fundus muscles had resting membrane potentials (RMPs; most negative potentials between slow waves) of –57 ± 3.3 mV (n= 12 muscles from 6 males and 5 females, mean age 67.1 ± 1.7 years). Electrical slow waves were recorded from 11 of 12 muscles (Table 1). The waveforms of fundus slow waves were similar to slow waves in more distal muscles: upstroke depolarization (maximal upstroke velocity (rate-of-rise or dV/dt) was 57 ± 34.5 mV s−1), partial repolarization to a ‘plateau phase’, and repolarization to RMP. The inter-slow wave interval, averaging 3.9 ± 0.9 s (P < 0.05; Fig. 3A), was shorter than slow wave duration. Recordings of electrical and mechanical activity revealed 1:1 coupling between slow waves and contractions (Fig. 3A). Electrical and mechanical activities recorded from various regions of the human stomach Regions from which specimens were obtained are denoted in surgical maps at left of each panel. A, recording from fundus where slow waves were routinely recorded. Each slow wave was associated with a phasic contraction (arrows) which summed to create tone. B, slow waves and corresponding phasic contractions in corpus muscle. C, slow waves and corresponding phasic contractions from an antral muscle. D–G, summary of electrical parameters (RMP, upstroke amplitude, frequency and rate of rise of the slow wave upstroke) from fundus, corpus and antrum. Corpus cells (regions 5–12) had RMP averaging –70 ± 1.5 mV (P < 0.001 as compared to fundus; n= 22 muscles from 14 males and 3 females; mean age 64.1 ± 3.1 years). Slow wave parameters are in Table 1. The dV/dt of the upstroke depolarization averaged 158 ± 29 mV s−1, which was faster than fundus slow waves (P < 0.001). Similar to fundus, the inter-slow wave interval was shorter than the slow wave duration, averaging 3.4 ± 0.3 s (P < 0.05). Simultaneous recordings from six muscles showed 1:1 coupling between slow waves and phasic contractions (Fig. 3B). Antral muscle cells (regions 13–16) had RMPs averaging –75 ± 1.3 mV (n= 29 muscles from 20 males and 9 females; mean age 58.6 ± 2.5 years. Slow waves parameters are shown in Table 1. The period between antral slow waves averaged 3.6 ± 0.4 s. The rate-of-rise of the upstroke component of antral slow waves averaged 389 ± 46 mV s−1, faster than slow waves in corpus (P < 0.001). Simultaneous electrical and mechanical recording (n= 11) revealed a 1:1 ratio between slow waves and phasic contractions (Fig. 3C). A summary of the electrical properties of slow waves in different regions of the stomach is shown in Fig. 3D–F. Pacemaker activity in rodent and canine stomachs is generated by ICC at the level of the myenteric plexus (ICC-MY) (Dickens et al. 1999; Ordög et al. 1999; Horiguchi et al. 2001). Slow waves conduct electrotonically from ICC-MY to adjacent CM and LM (Cousins et al. 2003). In larger animals, such as dogs, ICC-MY are dominant pacemakers (Horiguchi et al. 2001), but propagation into thicker CM occurs regeneratively via ICC surrounding muscle bundles (ICC-SEP) (Lee et al. 2007). We recorded slow waves at various sites through CM and LM and in CM and LM bundles free of myenteric plexus and ICC-MY (see Fig. 2). CM of the corpus near the myenteric border had RMPs averaging –67 ± 4.6 mV, and 24 ± 5.7 mV slow waves occurred at 5.0 ± 0.2 cpm with durations of 9.5 ± 0.6 s (n= 4). Half way through CM, RMP averaged –69 ± 1.3 mV with 29 ± 4.6 mV slow waves occurring at 5.1 ± 0.1 cpm (n= 4). Cells near the submucosal surface of CM had RMPs of –63 ± 2.1 mV (n= 3), and small slow waves (23 mV in amplitude and 11.2 s in duration, and 4.5 cpm frequency; Fig. 4A) were recorded in 2 of 3 muscles. Electrical slow waves in subregions of gastric muscle denoted on surgical maps in each panel A–C, recordings from intact circular (A and B) or longtitudinal (C) muscle strips from near the myenteric border of the circular muscle layer (isolated myenteric), near the submucosal surface of the circular layer (isolated submucosal), the interior region of circular or longitudinal muscles (bulk circular), or longitudinal muscles from near the myenteric border (myenteric longitudinal) or the serosal half of the longitudinal muscle (bulk longitudinal). Slow waves were recorded from all subregions of muscles. In antrum CM, RMP near the myenteric border averaged –68 ± 2.6 mV, and slow waves 34 ± 5.1 mV in amplitude occurred at 8.1 ± 0.8 cpm (4.5 ± 0.7 s duration; n= 7). Half way through the CM, RMP averaged –65 ± 2.5 mV, and slow waves 26 ± 3.2 mV in amplitude occurred at 7.7 ± 0.7 cpm (4.3 s ± 0.6 s durations; n= 10). Cells near the CM submucosal surface had RMPs of –64 ± 5.0 mV, and slow waves 20 ± 7.8 mV in amplitude occurred at 9.4 ± 1.7 cpm (4.1 ± 1.1 s durations; n= 6; Fig. 4B). RMP of LM cells was –66 ± 3.3 mV, and slow waves 27 ± 1.1 mV in amplitude occurred at 5.8 ± 0.7 cpm (6.5 ± 2.1 s durations; n= 5; Fig. 4C). Therefore, CM and LM both displayed intrinsic pacemaker activity. Intrinsic pacemaker activity was further studied using muscle bundles dissected from antral CM and LM. CM bundles near the myenteric border had RMPs averaging –72 ± 2 mV, and 41 ± 4.0 mV slow waves occurred at a frequency of 8.4 ± 0.7 cpm (3.2 ± 0.9 s durations; n= 5; Fig. 4B). CM bundles, approximately 50% through the CM, had RMPs of –68 ± 6.5 mV, and 21.7 ± 6 mV slow waves occurred at a frequency of 5.7 ± 0.7 cpm (5.1 ± 0.7 s durations; n= 3). A LM bundle from the region near the myenteric plexus displayed 18 mV slow waves, 13.5 s in duration, at 5 cpm (Fig. 4C). Similar spontaneous activity was recorded from two muscles isolated from subregions of the corpus (Fig. 4A). These data suggest that active pacemaker activity occurs through the thickness of human gastric muscles. Our results show that slow waves occur at higher frequencies in gastric muscles than found in studies of intact stomachs using extracellular recording (Hinder & Kelly, 1977; O’Grady et al. 2010). We investigated chronotropic mechanisms known to affect slow wave frequency to determine whether frequency was enhanced artificially in vitro. Cholinergic neurons exert chronotropic effects on gastric muscles (el-Sharkawy et al. 1978; Forrest et al. 2009), so we exposed human muscles to tetrodotoxin (TTX) and atropine to determine whether dissection increased excitatory neurotransmission. TTX (300 nm) (Supplemental Fig. 1A) and atropine had no effect on slow waves. Slow waves before atropine averaged 8.3 ± 0.6 cpm and were unchanged by atropine (1 μm; 8.5 ± 0.6 cpm; n= 6; P= 0.82; Supplemental Fig. 1B). Dissection might increase production of prostaglandins, and PGE2 has been shown to exert positive chronotropic effects on antral muscles (Sanders, 1984; Forrest et al. 2009). Therefore, muscles were treated with indomethacin (1 and 10 μm for >30 min; n= 5 each concentration; Supplemental Fig. 1C). Both concentrations caused a small decrease in frequency (i.e. 10 μm for 30–70 min reduced slow wave frequency from from 9 ± 1.0 cpm to 7.8 ± 0.9 cpm; P= 0.4, but the decrease did not bring frequency close to 3 cpm). Stretch of antral muscles also enhances slow wave frequency (Won et al. 2005). Therefore, our recordings were performed with minimal stretch imposed on muscles (see Methods). To determine if stretch enhanced slow wave frequency in antral muscles, a force transducer was positioned on a moveable platform and repeated graded length ramps were applied (n= 5 muscles from 3 patients). In 4 of 5 muscles, stretch (60 mN) caused depolarization from –71 ± 0.8 mV to –68 ± 0.9 mV (P= 0.036) and inter-slow wave interval was decreased transiently following the onset of stretch (i.e. from 5.4 ± 0.2 s to 3.5 ± 0.4 s; P= 0.001; Supplemental Fig. 1D), and basal frequency and membrane potential were restored upon release of stretch. Many animal studies have demonstrated that slow wave frequency depends upon temperature. Our experiments were performed at 37°C, and reducing temperature caused significant reduction in slow wave frequency, dV/dt and slow wave duration (e.g. from 6.8 ± 0.9 at 36°C to 2.9 ± 0.5 at 30°C; n= 4; Q10= 4.1; P= 0.011; Fig. 5A–F). Effects of temperature on slow wave parameters A–C, slow waves recorded during the same impalement as temperature was decreased from 37°C to 30°C and then returned to 37°C. D–F summarize the effects of temperature on the rate-of-rise of slow waves (D), frequency (E) and duration (F) (5 antral muscles of 3 patients). Data in D–F are fit with exponential functions (D and E, R2= 0.9990; F, R2= 0.9994). Extracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]o) and Ca2+ entry mechanisms have been shown to regulate slow wave frequency (Ward & Sanders, 1992). KRB contains 2.5 mmol l−1[Ca2+]o, but a portion of total Ca2+ is buffered in serum. Therefore, we tested the effects of reduced [Ca2+]o on slow waves. In an initial experiment [Ca2+]o was reduced in steps from 2.5 mm to 0.1 mm, and there was little effect on slow wave parameters over this broad range (Supplemental Fig. 2). Subsequent experiments, therefore, evaluated the effects of changing [Ca2+]o from 2.5 mm to nominally Ca2+ free conditions or very low levels by buffering [Ca2+]o with EGTA (1 mm). In nominally Ca2+ free solution (20–60 min), RMP of antral muscles depolarized from –69 ± 2.5 to –59 ± 3.5 (P= 0.04), and slow waves were abolished in 5 of 8 muscles (Fig. 6A). Slow waves recovered when muscles were reperfused with KRB (Fig. 6A). Although slow waves persisted for extended time periods, contractions were rapidly abolished in nominally Ca2+ free solution (Fig. 7). In the remaining three muscles, slow waves (14.3 ± 9.8 mV in amplitude and 2.8 ± 0.4 cpm) persisted. EGTA (1 mm), added to the nominally free [Ca2+]o solution, rapidly (<5 min) abolished slow waves in all muscles (Fig. 6B). Similar results were observed in tests of three corpus muscles; RMP depolarized from –76 ± 5 mV to –62 ± 10.8 mV (P= 0.001) and was reduced in amplitude and frequency from 32.7 ± 2.8 mV and 5.2 ± 1.4 cpm to 10 ± 5 mV (P= 0.05) and 3.7 ± 0.3 cpm (N.S.), respectively. The rate of rise of the upstroke was also significantly reduced from 339 ± 88 mV s−1 to 21 ± 16.4 mV s−1 (P= 0.02; n= 3). Addition of EGTA (1 mm) also abolished slow waves in the corpus and the effect was reversible following return to 2.5 mm[Ca2+]o. Effects of reduced Ca2+ and Ni2+ on slow wave parameters A, the time-dependent effects during a single impalement of reducing extracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]o) from 2.5 mm (control) to nominally free [Ca2+]o (15 and 30 min), and return to 2.5 mm[Ca2+]o. B, effects of adding EGTA (1 mm) to nominally free [Ca2+]o. Slow waves were rapidly blocked when EGTA was added. C, the effects of Ni2+ (0–1000 μm) on slow waves. D and E show summarized effects of Ni2+ on membrane potential (open diamonds in E), slow wave rate-of-rise (IC50= 114 μm; R2= 0.99), frequency (IC50= 339 μm; R2= 1), upstroke (IC50= 372 μm; R2= 0.99) and plateau amplitude (IC50= 96186 μm; R2= 0.99). Effects of reduced [Ca2+]o and nifedipine on slow waves and contractions A and B, simultaneous recordings of slow waves and phasic contractions in corpus and antrum in response to reduction in [Ca2+]o from 2.5 mm to nominally free [Ca2+]o. Note nearly total inhibition of contractions and slight reduction in amplitude and durations of slow waves. Tone is also reduced in both muscles with the reduction in amplitude. Break in A represents 20 min gap in the recording during a continous impalement. C, response of an antral muscle to nifedipine (1 μm). Note reduction, but not block, of contractions with this compound and little or no effect on slow waves. Break represents 10 min gap in recording during a continuous impalement. The L-type calcium channel antagonist nifedipine (1 μm) had little or no effect on slow wave frequency or amplitude throughout the stomach (Supplemental Fig. 3). For example RMP in corpus cells was –68.6 ± 3.4 mV, and slow wave amplitude and frequency were 29.1 ± 4 mV and 5.1 ± 1 cpm, respectively; in responses to nifedipine (1 μm), RMP was –69 ± 3.5, and slow wave amplitude and frequency were 29.4 ± 3.5 mV and 4.9 ± 0.8 cpm (P > 0.05 for all parameters, n= 8). Nifedipine also displayed little or no effect in antrum (n= 5) or fundus (n= 3). We also tested Ni2+, a T-type Ca2+ channel antagonist. Ni2+ caused concentration-dependent reduction in slow wave upstroke velocity, amplitude and frequency, and increased slow wave duration (Fig. 6C). For example, in KRB slow waves averaged 39 ± 3.2 mV in amplitude and 7.0 ± 0.9 s in duration and occurred at a frequency of 6.3 ± 0.8 cpm. The upstroke velocity (dV/dt) averaged 445 ± 95 mV s−1 (n= 7). Ni2+ (300 μm) reduced slow waves to 28 ± 2.8 mV (P= 0.024) and increased duration to 11.8 ± 1.9 s (P= 0.05). Slow wave frequency was reduced to 3.5 ± 0.3 cpm (IC50= 339 μm; P= 0.02), but the upstroke velocity was the most sensitive parameter and was reduced to 32 ± 6.8 mV s−1 (IC50= 114 μm; P= 0.003; n= 6; Fig. 6D and E). Slow waves in the corpus were affected by Ni2+in a similar manner (n= 2; not shown). ICC are pacemakers in gastric muscles (Dickens et al. 1999; Ordög et al. 1999), so the distribution of these cells was characterized. Previous studies of ICC in human stomach have been published (Ibba et al. 2004; Yun et al. 2010), but we characterized ICC in the specific regions and same muscles used for electrophysiological recordings. Montages of cryostat sections revealed an extensive distribution of ICC throughout the gastric tunica muscularis (Fig. 8). ICC were located at the level of the myenteric plexus between the CM and LM (ICC-MY) in corpus and antrum. ICC-MY formed an anastomosing network around and between ganglia. ICC (ICC-IM) were observed in CM and LM and ran parallel to the long axis of muscle fibres (Fig. 9A and E). Unlike ICC-IM in rodents (Burns et al. 1996), human ICC-IM possessed processes extending from the cell body and contacting adjacent ICC-IM to form a loose network (Fig. 9B, C and E). ICC were also found on the outer aspects of muscle bundles, within septae that separated muscle bundles, in both CM and LM (Supplemental Figs 4–6). Processes of these ICC (ICC-SEP) extended across septae to connect adjacent muscle bundles (Supplemental Fig. 5). ICC throughout the human stomach including fundus expressed TMEM16A (Fig. 10) (Gomez-Pinilla et al. 2009; Hwang et al. 2009). Antibodies for TMEM16A protein (anoctamin 1) are more specific for ICC than Kit labelling, as mast cells were not labelled with TMEM16A antibodies (Fig. 10). Montages of immunohistochemical confocal images taken through the fundus, corpus and antrum revealing Kit-immunopositive cells Higher resolution images (see Fig. 9 and Supplemental Figs 4–6) show that the majority of these cells are ICC, but mast cells were also identified by Kit labelling and their rounded appearance (particularly at the submucosal (s) surface of the circular muscle). A–C, a montage through the fundus region (A), the corpus region (B) and the antrum (C). Note the extensive distributions of ICC (arrows) throughout all regions of the circular (cm) and longitudial (lm) muscle bundles that were separated by septae (s). Mast cells (*) are also observed along the submucosal surface of the circular muscle layer. Higher power confocal images of Kit-positive ICC in different locations through the human stomach A and B, spindle shaped ICC and ICC with several projections within the gastric fundus (arrows; region 4). C and D, Kit-positive ICC within the gastric corpus (arrows; region 5). ICC formed dense networks throughout this region. E and F, Kit-positive ICC in the gastric antrum (region 13). Dense clusters of spindle shaped ICC and ICC with several projections were observed in the circular layer of this gastric region. Large numbers of small rounded Kit-positive mast cells were observed along the submucosal surface of the human stomach (*, inset in E). Scale bars = 50 μm. Double labelling of Kit and Ano-1/TMEM16A in the human stomach A and C, Kit (A, green), Ano-1 (B, red) and merged image (C) of ICC in the gastric fundus (arrows). D–F, Kit (D, green), Ano-1 (E, red) and merged image (F) of ICC in the gastric corpus (arrows). G–I, Kit (G, green), Ano-1 (H, red) and merged image (I) in the gastric antrum (arrows). Scale bar in I= 50 μm and represents all panels. Spontaneous electrical and mechanical activity throughout the human stomach was evaluated with intracellular recordings and isometric force measurements. Our data contrast with commonly held beliefs about human gastric electrophysiology and suggest that parameters considered ‘normal’ for human patients should be reconsidered. Slow wave activity was recorded in muscles from gastric fundus, an area typically considered ‘electrically quiescent’ based on animal studies (Morgan et al. 1981; Burns et al. 1996) and extracellular electrical recording from humans (O’Grady et al. 2010). Spontaneous electrical activity in human fundus was observed previously, but no characteristics of this activity were provided (Hara & Ito, 1979). The fundus does not contain an ICC-MY network, but branching septal ICC, which might provide a distributed network of pacemaker cells, were observed. Our data cannot exclude fundus smooth muscle cells as intrinsic pacemakers in human stomach, but we showed that fundus ICC express TMEM16A, which is necessary for pacemaker activity in mice (Hwang et al. 2009; Zhu et al. 2009), and this protein was not resolved in cells other than ICC. Slow wave frequencies were universally above the range considered normal in human stomach and were within the range typically considered ‘tachygastria’. Finally, we found no support for an intrinsic proximal-to-distal frequency gradient, as deduced from studies of dogs (Kelly & Code, 1969; el-Sharkawy et al. 1978). In fact, the frequency of antral slow waves often exceeded slow wave frequency in the corpus, in contrast to studies on canine muscles (el-Sharkawy et al. 1978). These results suggest significant differences in the electrophysiology of human stomachs and common laboratory animals. Our findings suggest that new concepts, tests and standards may be required for accurate clinical evaluations of gastric function. Gastric muscles were spontaneously active in each region of the stomach and phasic contractions were associated with slow waves. Morphological studies confirmed that human gastric muscles contain several classes of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC). ICC were present in the myenteric region (ICC-MY) between the CM and LM in corpus and antrum, within muscle bundles (ICC-IM)" @default.
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