Calibration of ionic and cellular cardiac electrophysiology models

DG Whittaker, M Clerx, CL Lei… - … Systems Biology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac electrophysiology models are among the most mature and well‐studied
mathematical models of biological systems. This maturity is bringing new challenges as …

Antiarrhythmic mechanisms of beta blocker therapy

E Grandi, CM Ripplinger - Pharmacological research, 2019 - Elsevier
Sympathetic activity plays an important role in modulation of cardiac rhythm. Indeed, while
exerting positive tropic effects in response to physiologic and pathologic stressors, β …

Prediction of arrhythmia susceptibility through mathematical modeling and machine learning

M Varshneya, X Mei, EA Sobie - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
At present, the QT interval on the electrocardiographic (ECG) waveform is the most common
metric for assessing an individual's susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias, with a long QT …

A heart for diversity: simulating variability in cardiac arrhythmia research

H Ni, S Morotti, E Grandi - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In cardiac electrophysiology, there exist many sources of inter-and intra-personal variability.
These include variability in conditions and environment, and genotypic and molecular …

Population-based mechanistic modeling allows for quantitative predictions of drug responses across cell types

JQX Gong, EA Sobie - Biophysical Journal, 2018 - cell.com
Quantitative mismatches between human physiology and experimental models can be
problematic for the development of effective therapeutics. When the effects of drugs on …

Hard real-time closed-loop electrophysiology with the Real-Time eXperiment Interface (RTXI)

YA Patel, A George, AD Dorval, JA White… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The ability to experimentally perturb biological systems has traditionally been limited to static
pre-programmed or operator-controlled protocols. In contrast, real-time control allows …

Tailoring mathematical models to stem-cell derived cardiomyocyte lines can improve predictions of drug-induced changes to their electrophysiology

CL Lei, K Wang, M Clerx, RH Johnstone… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) have applications
in disease modeling, cell therapy, drug screening and personalized medicine …

Global optimization of ventricular myocyte model to multi-variable objective improves predictions of drug-induced torsades de pointes

T Krogh-Madsen, AF Jacobson, FA Ortega… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In silico cardiac myocyte models present powerful tools for drug safety testing and for
predicting phenotypical consequences of ion channel mutations, but their accuracy is …

Dynamic clamp in electrophysiological studies on stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes—Why and how?

AO Verkerk, R Wilders - Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) are supposed to be a
good human-based model, with virtually unlimited cell source, for studies on mechanisms …

Light-activated dynamic clamp using iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes

B Quach, T Krogh-Madsen, E Entcheva, DJ Christini - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
Abstract iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) are a potentially advantageous platform
for drug screening because they provide a renewable source of human cardiomyocytes …