It's clearly the heart! Optical transparency, cardiac tissue imaging, and computer modelling

GB Sands, JL Ashton, ML Trew, D Baddeley… - Progress in Biophysics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent developments in clearing and microscopy enable 3D imaging with cellular resolution
up to the whole organ level. These methods have been used extensively in neurobiology …

Graft–host coupling changes can lead to engraftment arrhythmia: a computational study

CE Gibbs, S Marchianó, K Zhang, X Yang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
After myocardial infarction (MI), a significant portion of heart muscle is replaced with scar
tissue, progressively leading to heart failure. Human pluripotent stem cell‐derived …

[HTML][HTML] Conductance heterogeneities induced by multistability in the dynamics of coupled cardiac gap junctions

J Bragard, A Witt, D Laroze, C Hawks… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we study the propagation of the cardiac action potential in a one-dimensional
fiber, where cells are electrically coupled through gap junctions (GJs). We consider gap …

Non-ohmic tissue conduction in cardiac electrophysiology: Upscaling the non-linear voltage-dependent conductance of gap junctions

DE Hurtado, J Jilberto… - PLoS computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Gap junctions are key mediators of intercellular communication in cardiac tissue, and their
function is vital to sustaining normal cardiac electrical activity. Conduction through gap …

Adaptive-step methods for Markov-based membrane models

JM Gomes, RS Oliveira, M Lobosco… - … in Nonlinear Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work presents new adaptive time-step schemes based on the Uniformization method for
solving stiff electrophysiology models of excitable cells. Uniformization is a numerical …

Multiparameter optimization of nonuniform passive diffusion properties for creating coarse-grained equivalent models of cardiac propagation

É Irakoze, V Jacquemet - Computers in biology and medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The arrhythmogenic role of discrete cardiac propagation may be assessed by comparing
discrete (fine-grained) and equivalent continuous (coarse-grained) models. We aim to …

Modelling the electrical activity of the heart

S Alonso, RW dos Santos - Cardiovascular Computing—Methodologies …, 2019 - Springer
The electrocardiogram signal is a popular measurement of the electrical activity of the whole
heart. It reflects the interaction and diversity of the electrical activity of cells from different …

Robust graph-based upscaling of microscale fibrotic structures

ME Farquhar, K Burrage… - 2021 Computing in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrophysiological (and electromechanical) simulations are infamous for their
computational runtimes, and this remains a significant barrier to a full understanding of the …

Gap junction dynamics induces localized conductance bistability in cardiac tissue

C Hawks, J Elorza, A Witt, D Laroze… - … Journal of Bifurcation …, 2019 - World Scientific
Connexins are specialized ionic channels that control the action potential propagation
between cardiac myocytes. In this paper, we study the connexin dynamics in a one …

Improved accuracy of cardiac tissue-level simulations by considering membrane resistance as a cellular-level optimization objective

E Pouranbarani, LA Berg, RS Oliveira… - 2020 42nd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cardiac cellular models are utilized as the building blocks for tissue simulation. One of the
imprecisions of conventional cellular modeling, especially when the models are used in …