Ryanodine receptor sensitivity governs the stability and synchrony of local calcium release during cardiac excitation-contraction coupling

AP Wescott, MS Jafri, WJ Lederer, GSB Williams - Biophysical Journal, 2016 - cell.com
Synchronous coordination of calcium-induced calcium release (CICR) across thousands of
calcium release units (CRUs) within the cardiomyocyte is critical for normal excitation …

Local Control Model of a Human Ventricular Myocyte: An Exploration of Frequency-Dependent Changes and Calcium Sparks

JAE Alvarez, MS Jafri, A Ullah - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Calcium (Ca2+) sparks are the elementary events of excitation–contraction coupling, yet
they are not explicitly represented in human ventricular myocyte models. A stochastic …

Pacing Dynamics Determines the Arrhythmogenic Mechanism of the CPVT2-Causing CASQ2G112+5X Mutation in a Guinea Pig Ventricular Myocyte Computational …

R Paudel, MS Jafri, A Ullah - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Calsequestrin Type 2 (CASQ2) is a high-capacity, low-affinity, Ca2+-binding protein
expressed in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of the cardiac myocyte. Mutations in CASQ2 …

Critical requirements for the initiation of a cardiac arrhythmia in rat ventricle: how many myocytes?

A Ullah, MT Hoang-Trong, WJ Lederer, RL Winslow… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide due in a large part to
arrhythmia. In order to understand how calcium dynamics play a role in arrhythmogenesis …

The Role of Ca2+ Sparks in Force Frequency Relationships in Guinea Pig Ventricular Myocytes

R Paudel, MS Jafri, A Ullah - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Calcium sparks are the elementary Ca2+ release events in excitation-contraction coupling
that underlie the Ca2+ transient. The frequency-dependent contractile force generated by …

Cardiac alternans occurs through the synergy of voltage-and calcium-dependent mechanisms

MT Hoang-Trong, A Ullah, WJ Lederer, MS Jafri - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cardiac alternans is characterized by alternating weak and strong beats of the heart. This
signaling at the cellular level may appear as alternating long and short action potentials …

Resistive elements to operate as a matrix of probabilities

M Hu, JP Strachan, N Ge, J Yang - US Patent 9,847,124, 2017 - Google Patents
An example apparatus includes a crossbar array of signal lines and control lines. The
example apparatus also includes an input controller in circuit with the control lines. The input …

Interpolation of transition probability values in Markov decision processes

S Wasserkrug, A Zadorojniy, S Zeltyn - US Patent 10,540,598, 2020 - Google Patents
According to some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method for
determining a control action in a control system using a Markov decision process. The …

Multinomial distribution on an integrated circuit

Y Zhou, V Vivekraja, R Diamant - US Patent 10,997,277, 2021 - Google Patents
An integrated circuit device such as a neural network accelerator can be programmed to
select a numerical value based on a multinomial distribution. In various examples, the …

Methods and systems for deploying equipment required to meet defined production targets

MA Walker, N Hickson, R Catron, B Vaughan… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
Methods and systems determine at least one production constraint for a material loading
system and a material processing system; estimate an effect of entropy on a cycle time of a …