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Morris JA, Bardsley OJ, Salvage SC, Jackson AP, Matthews HR, Huang CLH. Nernst-Planck-Gaussian modelling of electrodiffusional recovery from ephaptic excitation between mammalian cardiomyocytes. Front Physiol 2024; 14:1280151. [PMID: 38235384 PMCID: PMC10791825 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1280151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024] Open
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Introduction: In addition to gap junction conduction, recent reports implicate possible ephaptic coupling contributions to action potential (AP) propagation between successive adjacent cardiomyocytes. Here, AP generation in an active cell, withdraws Na+ from, creating a negative potential within, ephaptic spaces between the participating membranes, activating the initially quiescent neighbouring cardiomyocyte. However, sustainable ephaptic transmission requires subsequent complete recovery of the ephaptic charge difference. We explore physical contributions of passive electrodiffusive ion exchange with the remaining extracellular space to this recovery for the first time. Materials and Methods: Computational, finite element, analysis examined limiting, temporal and spatial, ephaptic [Na+], [Cl-], and the consequent Gaussian charge differences and membrane potential recovery patterns following a ΔV∼130 mV AP upstroke at physiological (37°C) temperatures. This incorporated Nernst-Planck formalisms into equations for the time-dependent spatial concentration gradient profiles. Results: Mammalian atrial, ventricular and purkinje cardiomyocyte ephaptic junctions were modelled by closely apposed circularly symmetric membranes, specific capacitance 1 μF cm-2, experimentally reported radii a = 8,000, 12,000 and 40,000 nm respectively and ephaptic axial distance w = 20 nm. This enclosed an ephaptic space containing principal ions initially at normal extracellular [Na+] = 153.1 mM and [Cl-] = 145.8 mM, respective diffusion coefficients D Na = 1.3 × 109 and D Cl = 2 × 109 nm2s-1. Stable, concordant computational solutions were confirmed exploring ≤1,600 nm mesh sizes and Δt≤0.08 ms stepsize intervals. The corresponding membrane voltage profile changes across the initially quiescent membrane were obtainable from computed, graphically represented a and w-dependent ionic concentration differences adapting Gauss's flux theorem. Further simulations explored biological variations in ephaptic dimensions, membrane anatomy, and diffusion restrictions within the ephaptic space. Atrial, ventricular and Purkinje cardiomyocytes gave 40, 180 and 2000 ms 99.9% recovery times, with 720 or 360 ms high limits from doubling ventricular radius or halving diffusion coefficient. Varying a, and D Na and D Cl markedly affected recovery time-courses with logarithmic and double-logarithmic relationships, Varying w exerted minimal effects. Conclusion: We thereby characterise the properties of, and through comparing atrial, ventricular and purkinje recovery times with interspecies in vivo background cardiac cycle duration data, (blue whale ∼2000, human∼90, Etruscan shrew, ∼40 ms) can determine physical limits to, electrodiffusive contributions to ephaptic recovery.
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- Joshua A. Morris
- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Ya D, Zhang Y, Cui Q, Jiang Y, Yang J, Tian N, Xiang W, Lin X, Li Q, Liao R. Application of spatial transcriptome technologies to neurological diseases. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1142923. [PMID: 36936681 PMCID: PMC10020196 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1142923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Spatial transcriptome technology acquires gene expression profiles while retaining spatial location information, it displays the gene expression properties of cells in situ. Through the investigation of cell heterogeneity, microenvironment, function, and cellular interactions, spatial transcriptome technology can deeply explore the pathogenic mechanisms of cell-type-specific responses and spatial localization in neurological diseases. The present article overviews spatial transcriptome technologies based on microdissection, in situ hybridization, in situ sequencing, in situ capture, and live cell labeling. Each technology is described along with its methods, detection throughput, spatial resolution, benefits, and drawbacks. Furthermore, their applications in neurodegenerative disease, neuropsychiatric illness, stroke and epilepsy are outlined. This information can be used to understand disease mechanisms, pick therapeutic targets, and establish biomarkers.
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- Dongshan Ya
- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Department of Neurology ward 2, Guilin People’s Hospital, Guilin, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China
- *Correspondence: Rujia Liao,
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Lookin O, Khokhlova A, Myachina T, Butova X, Cazorla O, de Tombe P. Contractile State Dependent Sarcomere Length Variability in Isolated Guinea-Pig Cardiomyocytes. Front Physiol 2022; 13:857471. [PMID: 35444559 PMCID: PMC9013801 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.857471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cardiomyocytes contract keeping their sarcomere length (SL) close to optimal values for force generation. Transmural heterogeneity in SL across the ventricular wall coordinates the contractility of the whole-ventricle. SL heterogeneity (variability) exists not only at the tissue (macroscale) level, but also presents at the level of a single cardiomyocyte (microscale level). However, transmural differences in intracellular SL variability and its possible dependence on the state of contraction (e.g. end-diastole or end-systole) have not been previously reported. In the present study, we studied three aspects of sarcomere-to-sarcomere variability in intact cardiomyocytes isolated from the left ventricle of healthy guinea-pig: 1) transmural differences in SL distribution between subepi- (EPI) and subendocardial (ENDO) cardiomyocytes; 2) the dependence of intracellular variability in SL upon the state of contraction; 3) local differences in SL variability, comparing SL distributions between central and peripheral regions within the cardiomyocyte. To characterize the intracellular variability of SL, we used different normality tests for the assessment of SL distributions, as well as nonparametric coefficients to quantify the variability. We found that individual SL values in the end-systolic state of contraction followed a normal distribution to a lesser extent as compared to the end-diastolic state of contraction (∼1.3-fold and ∼1.6-fold in ENDO and EPI, respectively). The relative and absolute coefficients of sarcomere-to-sarcomere variability in end-systolic SL were significantly greater (∼1.3-fold) as compared to end-diastolic SL. This was independent of both the transmural region across the left ventricle and the intracellular region within the cardiomyocyte. We conclude that the intracellular variability in SL, which exists in normal intact guinea-pig cardiomyocytes, is affected by the contractile state of the myocyte. This phenomenon may play a role in inter-sarcomere communication in the beating heart.
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- Oleg Lookin
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
- *Correspondence: Oleg Lookin,
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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- Laboratoire “Physiologie et Médecine Expérimentale du Coeur et des Muscles”, Phymedexp, INSERM—CNRS - Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire “Physiologie et Médecine Expérimentale du Coeur et des Muscles”, Phymedexp, INSERM—CNRS - Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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Single cardiomyocytes from papillary muscles show lower preload-dependent activation of force compared to cardiomyocytes from the left ventricular free wall. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2022; 166:127-136. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2022.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Revised: 02/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Arteyeva NV. Dispersion of ventricular repolarization: Temporal and spatial. World J Cardiol 2020; 12:437-449. [PMID: 33014291 PMCID: PMC7509993 DOI: 10.4330/wjc.v12.i9.437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Revised: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Repolarization heterogeneity (RH) is an intrinsic property of ventricular myocardium and the reason for T-wave formation on electrocardiogram (ECG). Exceeding the physiologically based RH level is associated with appearance of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. In this regard, an accurate and comprehensive evaluation of the degree of RH parameters is of importance for assessment of heart state and arrhythmic risk. This review is devoted to comprehensive consideration of RH phenomena in terms of electrophysiological processes underlying RH, cardiac electric field formation during ventricular repolarization, as well as clinical significance of RH and its reflection on ECG parameters. The formation of transmural, apicobasal, left-to-right and anterior-posterior gradients of action potential durations and end of repolarization times resulting from the heterogenous distribution of repolarizing ion currents and action potential morphology throughout the heart ventricles, and the different sensitivity of myocardial cells in different ventricular regions to the action of pharmacological agents, temperature, frequency of stimulation, etc., are being discussed. The review is focused on the fact that RH has different aspects – temporal and spatial, global and local; ECG reflection of various RH aspects and their clinical significance are being discussed. Strategies for comprehensive assessment of ventricular RH using different ECG indices reflecting various RH aspects are presented.
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- Natalia V Arteyeva
- Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology of Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar 167982, Russia
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Clark JA, Campbell SG. Diverse relaxation rates exist among rat cardiomyocytes isolated from a single myocardial region. J Physiol 2018; 597:711-722. [PMID: 30315728 DOI: 10.1113/jp276718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Accepted: 09/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Prior studies have shown variation in the functional properties of cardiomyocytes isolated from different regions of the left ventricular myocardium. We found that these region-dependent variations vanish below a tissue volume of ∼7 mm3 in the adult rat myocardium, revealing a fixed level of intrinsic relaxation rate heterogeneity that is independent of tissue volume. Within these microscopically varying cell populations, fast-relaxing cells were shown to have elevated phosphorylated troponin I compared to slow-relaxing cells. Relaxation rate was also correlated with cardiomyocyte length, in that slow-relaxing cells were longer than fast-relaxing cells. These results show a new relationship between cardiomyocyte morphology and myofilament relaxation, and suggest that functional diversity among individual myocytes at the microscale may contribute to bulk relaxation of the myocardium. ABSTRACT The mean contractility and calcium handling properties of cardiomyocytes isolated from different regions of the ventricular myocardium are known to vary significantly. We designed experiments to quantify the variance in contractile properties among cells within the same myocardial region. Longitudinal strips of myocardial tissue were excised from the epicardial left ventricular free walls of adult Sprague-Dawley rats and then treated with collagenase to isolate individual myocytes. Cardiomyocytes were characterized by measuring sarcomere length changes and calcium transients during electrical pacing. Variance of the time from peak sarcomere shortening to 50% re-lengthening (RT50 ) was assessed in each cell population. Isolating cells from progressively shorter strips allowed an estimate of the myocardial volume below which regional variation vanished and only microscale heterogeneity remained (∼7 mm3 ). The SD of RT50 within this myocardial volume was 28% of the mean. In a series of follow-up experiments, RT50 was shown to correlate significantly with resting myocyte length, suggesting a connection between cell morphology and intrinsic relaxation behaviour. To explore the mechanistic basis of varying RT50 , a novel single-cell aspirator was employed to collect small batches of cardiomyocytes grouped according to their relaxation rates (fast or slow). Western blot analysis of the two groups revealed significantly elevated troponin I phosphorylation in fast-relaxing cells. Our observations suggest that cell-to-cell heterogeneity of active contractile properties is substantial, with implications for how we understand myocardial relaxation and design drug therapies intended to alter relaxation rate.
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Khokhlova A, Balakina-Vikulova N, Katsnelson L, Iribe G, Solovyova O. Transmural cellular heterogeneity in myocardial electromechanics. J Physiol Sci 2018; 68:387-413. [PMID: 28573594 PMCID: PMC10717105 DOI: 10.1007/s12576-017-0541-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Myocardial heterogeneity is an attribute of the normal heart. We have developed integrative models of cardiomyocytes from the subendocardial (ENDO) and subepicardial (EPI) ventricular regions that take into account experimental data on specific regional features of intracellular electromechanical coupling in the guinea pig heart. The models adequately simulate experimental data on the differences in the action potential and contraction between the ENDO and EPI cells. The modeling results predict that heterogeneity in the parameters of calcium handling and myofilament mechanics in isolated ENDO and EPI cardiomyocytes are essential to produce the differences in Ca2+ transients and contraction profiles via cooperative mechanisms of mechano-calcium-electric feedback and may further slightly modulate transmural differences in the electrical properties between the cells. Simulation results predict that ENDO cells have greater sensitivity to changes in the mechanical load than EPI cells. These data are important for understanding the behavior of cardiomyocytes in the intact heart.
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- Anastasia Khokhlova
- Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya, Ekaterinburg, 620049, Russia.
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- Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya, Ekaterinburg, 620049, Russia
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- Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya, Ekaterinburg, 620049, Russia
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- Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan
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- Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya, Ekaterinburg, 620049, Russia
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Vaverka J, Burša J, Šumbera J, Pásek M. Effect of Transmural Differences in Excitation-Contraction Delay and Contraction Velocity on Left Ventricle Isovolumic Contraction: A Simulation Study. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 2018:4798512. [PMID: 29862273 PMCID: PMC5971307 DOI: 10.1155/2018/4798512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Revised: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Recent studies have shown that left ventricle (LV) exhibits considerable transmural differences in active mechanical properties induced by transmural differences in electrical activity, excitation-contraction coupling, and contractile properties of individual myocytes. It was shown that the time between electrical and mechanical activation of myocytes (electromechanical delay: EMD) decreases from subendocardium to subepicardium and, on the contrary, the myocyte shortening velocity (MSV) increases in the same direction. To investigate the physiological importance of this inhomogeneity, we developed a new finite element model of LV incorporating the observed transmural gradients in EMD and MSV. Comparative simulations with the model showed that when EMD or MSV or both were set constant across the LV wall, the LV contractility during isovolumic contraction (IVC) decreased significantly ((dp/dt)max was reduced by 2 to 38% and IVC was prolonged by 18 to 73%). This was accompanied by an increase of transmural differences in wall stress. These results suggest that the transmural differences in EMD and MSV play an important role in physiological contractility of LV by synchronising the contraction of individual layers of ventricular wall during the systole. Reduction or enhancement of these differences may therefore impair the function of LV and contribute to heart failure.
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- J Vaverka
- Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Institute of Thermomechanics, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic
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Khokhlova A, Iribe G, Katsnelson L, Naruse K, Solovyova O. The effects of load on transmural differences in contraction of isolated mouse ventricular cardiomyocytes. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2017; 114:276-287. [PMID: 29217431 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2017.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Mechanical properties of cardiomyocytes from different transmural regions are heterogeneous in the left ventricular wall. The cardiomyocyte mechanical environment affects this heterogeneity because of mechano-electric feedback mechanisms. In the present study, we investigated the effects of the mechanical load (preload and afterload) on transmural differences in contraction of subendocardial (ENDO) and subepicardial (EPI) single cells isolated from the murine left ventricle. Various preloads imposed via axial stretch and afterloads (unloaded and heavy loaded conditions) were applied to the cells using carbon fiber techniques for single myocytes. To simulate experimentally obtained results and to predict mechanisms underlying the cellular response to change in load, our mathematical models of the ENDO and EPI cells were used. Our major findings are the following. Our results show that ENDO and EPI cardiomyocytes have different mechanical responses to changes in preload to the cells. Under auxotonic contractions at low preload (unstretched cells), time to peak contraction (Tmax) and the time constant of [Ca2+]i transient decay were significantly longer in ENDO cells than in EPI cells. An increase in preload (stretched cells) prolonged Tmax in both cell types; however, the prolongation was greater in EPI cells, resulting in a decrease in the transmural gradient in Tmax at high preload. Comparing unloaded and heavy loaded (isometric) contractions of the cells we found that transmural gradient in the time course of contraction is independent of the loading conditions. Our mathematical cell models were able to reproduce the experimental results on the distinct cellular responses to changes in the mechanical load when we accounted for an ENDO/EPI difference in the parameters of cooperativity of calcium activation of myofilaments.
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- Anastasia Khokhlova
- Ural Federal University, Mira 19, 620002 Ekaterinburg, Russia; Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pervomajskaya 106, 620049 Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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- Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shikata cho 2-5-1, 1700-8558 Okayama, Japan
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- Ural Federal University, Mira 19, 620002 Ekaterinburg, Russia; Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pervomajskaya 106, 620049 Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shikata cho 2-5-1, 1700-8558 Okayama, Japan
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- Ural Federal University, Mira 19, 620002 Ekaterinburg, Russia; Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pervomajskaya 106, 620049 Ekaterinburg, Russia; Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kovalevskaya 16, 620990 Ekaterinburg, Russia
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Osadchii OE. Role of abnormal repolarization in the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2017; 220 Suppl 712:1-71. [PMID: 28707396 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In cardiac patients, life-threatening tachyarrhythmia is often precipitated by abnormal changes in ventricular repolarization and refractoriness. Repolarization abnormalities typically evolve as a consequence of impaired function of outward K+ currents in cardiac myocytes, which may be caused by genetic defects or result from various acquired pathophysiological conditions, including electrical remodelling in cardiac disease, ion channel modulation by clinically used pharmacological agents, and systemic electrolyte disorders seen in heart failure, such as hypokalaemia. Cardiac electrical instability attributed to abnormal repolarization relies on the complex interplay between a provocative arrhythmic trigger and vulnerable arrhythmic substrate, with a central role played by the excessive prolongation of ventricular action potential duration, impaired intracellular Ca2+ handling, and slowed impulse conduction. This review outlines the electrical activity of ventricular myocytes in normal conditions and cardiac disease, describes classical electrophysiological mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmia, and provides an update on repolarization-related surrogates currently used to assess arrhythmic propensity, including spatial dispersion of repolarization, activation-repolarization coupling, electrical restitution, TRIaD (triangulation, reverse use dependence, instability, and dispersion), and the electromechanical window. This is followed by a discussion of the mechanisms that account for the dependence of arrhythmic vulnerability on the location of the ventricular pacing site. Finally, the review clarifies the electrophysiological basis for cardiac arrhythmia produced by hypokalaemia, and gives insight into the clinical importance and pathophysiology of drug-induced arrhythmia, with particular focus on class Ia (quinidine, procainamide) and Ic (flecainide) Na+ channel blockers, and class III antiarrhythmic agents that block the delayed rectifier K+ channel (dofetilide).
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- O. E. Osadchii
- Department of Health Science and Technology; University of Aalborg; Aalborg Denmark
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Khokhlova AD, Iribe G. Transmural Differences in Mechanical Properties of Isolated Subendocardial and Subepicardial Cardiomyocytes. Bull Exp Biol Med 2016; 162:48-50. [PMID: 27878719 DOI: 10.1007/s10517-016-3542-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We studied the differences in twitch force of subendocardial and subepicardial cardiomyocytes isolated from mouse left ventricular wall at different preloads using an original single cell stretch method recently developed by us. Then, we used our mathematical models of subendocardial and subepicardial cells to predict underlying cellular mechanisms. Transmural differences in the amplitudes of active tension of subendocardial and subepicardial cardiomyocytes were revealed that could be related to the differences in cooperative end-to-end interaction between the neighboring regulatory units of the thin filament.
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- A D Khokhlova
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia. .,B. N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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- Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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Arteyeva NV, Azarov JE, Vityazev VA, Shmakov DN. Action potential duration gradients in the heart ventricles and the cardiac electric field during ventricular repolarization (a model study). J Electrocardiol 2015; 48:678-85. [PMID: 25818745 DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2015.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND We simulated contributions of transmural, apicobasal, anteroposterior and interventricular action potential duration (APD) gradients to the body surface potential distribution (BSPD) with constant or varied magnitudes of the transmural and apicobasal gradients. METHODS Simulations were done in the framework of the discrete computer model of the rabbit heart ventricles on the basis of realistic activation sequence and APDs. The APD gradients were set constant at 20 ms or varied in the range of ±80 ms. RESULTS The apicobasal, transmural and interventricular APD gradients of 20 ms produced similar BSPDs, whereas the BSPD inversion was caused by the inverted apicobasal or transmural 80 ms gradients. The transmural APD gradient produced transversal and mainly apicobasal T-wave vectors due to wall curvature and cancellation effects. The "normal" transversal and apicobasal repolarization gradients were decreased and increased by activation sequence, respectively. CONCLUSION The different APD gradients contributed consistently to the development of BSPD.
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- Natalia V Arteyeva
- Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50, Pervomayskaya St., Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50, Pervomayskaya St., Syktyvkar, Russia; Department of Physiology, Medical Institute of Syktyvkar State University, 11, Babushkin St., Syktyvkar, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50, Pervomayskaya St., Syktyvkar, Russia; Department of Physiology, Medical Institute of Syktyvkar State University, 11, Babushkin St., Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50, Pervomayskaya St., Syktyvkar, Russia
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Solovyova O, Katsnelson LB, Konovalov PV, Kursanov AG, Vikulova NA, Kohl P, Markhasin VS. The cardiac muscle duplex as a method to study myocardial heterogeneity. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 115:115-28. [PMID: 25106702 PMCID: PMC4210666 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2014] [Accepted: 07/25/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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This paper reviews the development and application of paired muscle preparations, called duplex, for the investigation of mechanisms and consequences of intra-myocardial electro-mechanical heterogeneity. We illustrate the utility of the underlying combined experimental and computational approach for conceptual development and integration of basic science insight with clinically relevant settings, using previously published and new data. Directions for further study are identified.
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- O Solovyova
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya Str, Ekaterinburg 620049, Russia; Ural Federal University, 19 Mira Str, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia.
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya Str, Ekaterinburg 620049, Russia
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya Str, Ekaterinburg 620049, Russia
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya Str, Ekaterinburg 620049, Russia; Ural Federal University, 19 Mira Str, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya Str, Ekaterinburg 620049, Russia
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College of London, Heart Science Centre, Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, Harefield UB9 6JH, UK; Department of Computer Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Pervomayskaya Str, Ekaterinburg 620049, Russia; Ural Federal University, 19 Mira Str, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia
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Azarov JE, Kibler NA, Vaykshnorayte MA, Tsvetkova AS, Kharin SN, Vityazev VA, Shmakov DN. Effect of heart electric stimulation on repolarization of ventricular myocardium of fish and amphibians. J EVOL BIOCHEM PHYS+ 2013. [DOI: 10.1134/s0022093013020059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Vasilyeva AD, Solovyova OE. Electromechanical coupling in cardiomyocytes from transmural layers of guinea pig left ventricle. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006350912050235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Campbell SG, McCulloch AD. Multi-scale computational models of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: genotype to phenotype. J R Soc Interface 2011; 8:1550-61. [PMID: 21831889 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is an inherited disorder affecting roughly one in 500 people. Its hallmark is abnormal thickening of the ventricular wall, leading to serious complications that include heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Treatment is complicated by variation in the severity, symptoms and risks for sudden death within the patient population. Nearly all of the genetic lesions associated with FHC occur in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins, indicating that defects in cardiac muscle contraction underlie the condition. Detailed biophysical data are increasingly available for computational analyses that could be used to predict heart phenotypes based on genotype. These models must integrate the dynamic processes occurring in cardiac cells with properties of myocardial tissue, heart geometry and haemodynamic load in order to predict strain and stress in the ventricular walls and overall pump function. Recent advances have increased the biophysical detail in these models at the myofilament level, which will allow properties of FHC-linked mutant proteins to be accurately represented in simulations of whole heart function. The short-term impact of these models will be detailed descriptions of contractile dysfunction and altered myocardial strain patterns at the earliest stages of the disease-predictions that could be validated in genetically modified animals. Long term, these multi-scale models have the potential to improve clinical management of FHC through genotype-based risk stratification and personalized therapy.
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- Stuart G Campbell
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0412, USA
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Left-to-right ventricular differences in I(KATP) underlie epicardial repolarization gradient during global ischemia. Heart Rhythm 2011; 8:1732-9. [PMID: 21723845 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2011] [Accepted: 06/21/2011] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND The ionic mechanisms of electrical heterogeneity in the ischemic ventricular epicardium remain poorly understood. OBJECTIVE This study sought to test the hypothesis that the adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-activated K+ current (I(KATP)) plays an important role in mediating repolarization differences between the right ventricle (RV) and left ventricle (LV) during global ischemia. METHODS Electrical activity in Langendorff-perfused guinea pig hearts was recorded optically during control, ischemia, and reperfusion. Patch-clamp experiments were used to quantify I(KATP) density in isolated myocytes. Molecular correlates of I(KATP) (Kir6/SUR) were probed via reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. The role of I(KATP) in modulating repolarization was studied using computer simulations. RESULTS Action potential duration (APD) was similar between LV and RV in control hearts, but significantly different in global ischemia. Pretreatment of hearts with 10 μM glibenclamide (I(KATP) blocker) abolished the APD gradient during ischemia. In the absence of ischemia, pinacidil (I(KATP) opener) tended to shorten the APD more in the LV, and caused a small but significant increase in APD dispersion. In voltage clamp experiments, the density of the whole-cell current activated by pinacidil at depolarized potentials was significantly larger in LV, compared with RV epicardial myocytes. The mRNA levels of Kir6.1/Kir6.2 were significantly higher in LV compared with RV. Simulations showed that I(KATP) is the main determinant of LV-RV APD gradient, whereas cell-to-cell coupling modified the spatial distribution of this APD gradient. CONCLUSION I(KATP) is an important determinant of the epicardial LV-RV APD gradient during global ischemia, in part due to a higher current density and molecular expression in the LV.
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Bollensdorff C, Lookin O, Kohl P. Assessment of contractility in intact ventricular cardiomyocytes using the dimensionless 'Frank-Starling Gain' index. Pflugers Arch 2011; 462:39-48. [PMID: 21494804 PMCID: PMC3114067 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-011-0964-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2011] [Revised: 03/28/2011] [Accepted: 03/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This paper briefly recapitulates the Frank–Starling law of the heart, reviews approaches to establishing diastolic and systolic force–length behaviour in intact isolated cardiomyocytes, and introduces a dimensionless index called ‘Frank–Starling Gain’, calculated as the ratio of slopes of end-systolic and end-diastolic force–length relations. The benefits and limitations of this index are illustrated on the example of regional differences in Guinea pig intact ventricular cardiomyocyte mechanics. Potential applicability of the Frank–Starling Gain for the comparison of cell contractility changes upon stretch will be discussed in the context of intra- and inter-individual variability of cardiomyocyte properties.
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- Christian Bollensdorff
- Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology, The National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK.
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Tsvetkova AS, Kibler NA, Nuzhny VP, Shmakov DN, Azarov JE. Acute effects of pacing site on repolarization and haemodynamics of the canine ventricles. Europace 2011; 13:889-96. [PMID: 21421575 DOI: 10.1093/europace/eur053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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AIMS To determine the repolarization duration gradients in different ventricular regions at atrial and ventricular pacing and to test the hypothesis that acute haemodynamic response to ventricular pacing is related to the lead position with respect to repolarization gradients. METHODS AND RESULTS Repolarization durations estimated as activation-recovery intervals (ARIs) were measured from unipolar electrograms recorded in the subepicardial (Epi), mid-myocardial (Mid), and subendocardial (Endo) layers of the apical and basal parts of the right ventricle (RV) and left ventricle (LV) of 15 healthy dogs under atrial and ventricular pacing. Cardiac haemodynamic variables were measured as well. At atrial pacing, ARIs were shorter in Epi than in the innermost layers (P< 0.05) in the RV apex and LV base, but not in the LV apex and RV base. Activation-recovery intervals increased from apex to base and from base to apex in RV and LV, respectively (P ≤ 0.05). At apical or basal pacing of RV and LV, repolarization gradients decayed. The dispersion of repolarization increased at LV apical pacing and preserved at RV apical pacing. The pump function of a ventricle was altered dramatically at pacing of the area with the shorter ARIs and to a lesser degree at pacing of the area with the longer ARIs (P ≤ 0.051). CONCLUSION The transmural and apicobasal differences in repolarization durations were heterogeneously distributed at atrial pacing. The acute haemodynamic response of the individual ventricle was better with pacing of the region with the longest repolarization suggesting a promising criterion for the lead position selection on the basis of ARIs measurements.
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- Alena S Tsvetkova
- Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Komi Science Center, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50 Pervomayskaya St., Syktyvkar, 167982 Russia
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Walton RD, Bernus O. Electrotonic effects on action potential duration in perfused rat hearts. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2010; 2009:4190-3. [PMID: 19964627 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2009.5334052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Electrotonic interactions in cardiac tissue have been shown previously to modulate dynamical properties of the myocardium such as action potential duration (APD) and action potential duration restitution. A recent computational study indicated that these electrotonic effects may be strongest in small murine hearts. In the present study, we investigate experimentally how APD is modulated by activation sequence and pacing rate using optical mapping in Langendorff perfused rat hearts. Our results show that following an epicardial point stimulus, a strong correlation exists between epicardial APD and activation time, with decreasing APD for increasing activation time. This effect is preserved for all pacing frequencies (6-14 Hz) investigated in this study. Our experimental results are validated by detailed three-dimensional computer simulations. These simulations also demonstrate a strong transmural APD dependence on activation sequence, which, near the pacing site, is sufficient to mask the intrinsic transmural gradient.
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- Richard D Walton
- Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Leeds
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Osadchii OE, Olesen SP. Electrophysiological determinants of hypokalaemia-induced arrhythmogenicity in the guinea-pig heart. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2009; 197:273-87. [PMID: 19656123 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2009.02028.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM Hypokalaemia is an independent risk factor contributing to arrhythmic death in cardiac patients. In the present study, we explored the mechanisms of hypokalaemia-induced tachyarrhythmias by measuring ventricular refractoriness, spatial repolarization gradients, and ventricular conduction time in isolated, perfused guinea-pig heart preparations. METHODS Epicardial and endocardial monophasic action potentials from distinct left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) recording sites were monitored simultaneously with volume-conducted electrocardiogram (ECG) during steady-state pacing and following a premature extrastimulus application at progressively reducing coupling stimulation intervals in normokalaemic and hypokalaemic conditions. RESULTS Hypokalaemic perfusion (2.5 mm K(+) for 30 min) markedly increased the inducibility of tachyarrhythmias by programmed ventricular stimulation and rapid pacing, prolonged ventricular repolarization and shortened LV epicardial and endocardial effective refractory periods, thereby increasing the critical interval for LV re-excitation. Hypokalaemia increased the RV-to-LV transepicardial repolarization gradients but had no effect on transmural dispersion of APD(90) and refractoriness across the LV wall. As determined by local activation time recordings, the LV-to-RV transepicardial conduction and the LV transmural (epicardial-to-endocardial) conduction were slowed in hypokalaemic heart preparations. This change was attributed to depressed diastolic excitability as evidenced by increased ventricular pacing thresholds. CONCLUSION These findings suggest that hypokalaemia-induced arrhythmogenicity is attributed to shortened LV refractoriness, increased critical intervals for LV re-excitation, amplified RV-to-LV transepicardial repolarization gradients and slowed ventricular conduction in the guinea-pig heart.
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- O E Osadchii
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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Campbell SG, Flaim SN, Leem CH, McCulloch AD. Mechanisms of transmurally varying myocyte electromechanics in an integrated computational model. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2008; 366:3361-80. [PMID: 18593662 PMCID: PMC2556206 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The mechanical properties of myocardium vary across the transmural aspect of the left ventricular wall. Some of these functional heterogeneities may be related to differences in excitation-contraction coupling characteristics that have been observed in cells isolated from the epicardial, mid-myocardial and endocardial regions of the left ventricle of many species, including canine. Integrative models of coupled myocyte electromechanics are reviewed and used here to investigate sources of heterogeneous electromechanical behaviour in these cells. The simulations (i) illustrate a previously unrecognized role of the transient outward potassium current in mechanical function and (ii) suggest that there may also exist additional heterogeneities affecting crossbridge cycling rates in cells from different transmural regions.
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- Stuart G. Campbell
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego9500 Gilman Drive no. 0412, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Computing Laboratory, University of OxfordWolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK
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- Department of Physiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine388-1 Poongnap-Dong Songpa-Ku, Seoul 138-736, South Korea
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego9500 Gilman Drive no. 0412, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Author for correspondence ()
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Stones R, Gilbert SH, Benoist D, White E. Inhomogeneity in the response to mechanical stimulation: cardiac muscle function and gene expression. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 97:268-81. [PMID: 18485455 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2008.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Mechanical stimulation has important consequences for myocardial function. However, this stimulation and the response to it, is not uniform. The right ventricle is thinner walled and operates at lower pressure than the left ventricle. Within the ventricles, differences in the orientation of myocardial fibres exist. These differences produce inhomogeneity in the stress and strain between and across the ventricles. Possibly as a result of these variations in mechanical stimulation, there are well characterised inhomogeneities in gene expression and protein function within the ventricular myocardium, for example in the transient outward K+ current and its associated Kv channels. Perhaps not surprisingly, it is becoming apparent that gradients of expression and function exist for proteins that are intimately involved in the response to mechanical stimulation in the heart, for example in the left ventricle of the rat there is a transmural gradient in mRNA and current density of the mechanosensitive two-pore domain K+ channel TREK-1 (ENDO>EPI). In healthy hearts it is assumed that these gradients are important for normal function and therefore that their disruption in diseased myocardium is involved in the dysfunction that occurs.
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- Rachel Stones
- Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Jonker SS, Zhang L, Louey S, Giraud GD, Thornburg KL, Faber JJ. Myocyte enlargement, differentiation, and proliferation kinetics in the fetal sheep heart. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2006; 102:1130-42. [PMID: 17122375 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00937.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The generation of new myocytes is an essential process of in utero heart growth. Most, or all, cardiac myocytes lose their capacity for proliferation during the perinatal period through the process of terminal differentiation. An increasing number of studies focus on how experimental interventions affect cardiac myocyte growth in the fetal sheep. Nevertheless, fundamental questions about normal growth of the fetal heart remain unanswered. In this study, we determined that during the last third of gestation the hearts of fetal sheep grew primarily by four processes. 1) Myocyte proliferation contributed substantially to daily cardiac mass gain, and the number of cardiac myocytes continued to increase to term. 2) The (hitherto unrecognized) contribution to cardiac growth by the increase in myocyte size associated with the transition from mononucleation to binucleation (terminal differentiation) became considerable from approximately 115 days of gestational age (dGA) until term (145dGA). Because binucleation became the more frequent outcome of myocyte cell cycle activity after approximately 115dGA, the number of binucleated myocytes increased at the expense of the number of mononucleated myocytes. Both the interval between nuclear divisions and the duration of cell cycle activity in myocytes decreased substantially during this same period. Finally, cardiac growth was in part due to enlargement of 3) mononucleated and 4) binucleated myocytes, which grew in cross-sectional diameter but not length during the last third of gestation. These data on normal cardiac growth may enable a more detailed understanding of the consequences of experimental and pathological interventions in prenatal life.
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- Sonnet S Jonker
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA.
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Solovyova O, Katsnelson LB, Konovalov P, Lookin O, Moskvin AS, Protsenko YL, Vikulova N, Kohl P, Markhasin VS. Activation sequence as a key factor in spatio-temporal optimization of myocardial function. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2006; 364:1367-83. [PMID: 16766350 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Using one-dimensional models of myocardial tissue, implemented as chains of virtual ventricular muscle segments that are kinematically connected in series, we studied the role of the excitation sequence in spatio-temporal organization of cardiac function. Each model element was represented by a well-verified mathematical model of cardiac electro-mechanical activity. We found that homogeneous chains, consisting of identical elements, respond to non-simultaneous stimulation by generation of complex spatio-temporal heterogeneities in element deformation. These are accompanied by the establishment of marked gradients in local electro-mechanical properties of the elements (heterogeneity in action potential duration, Ca2+ transient characteristics and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ loading). In heterogeneous chains, composed of elements simulating fast and slow contracting cardiomyocytes from different transmural layers, we found that only activation sequences where stimulation of the slower elements preceded that of faster ones gave rise to optimization of the system's electro-mechanical function, which was confirmed experimentally. Based on the results obtained, we hypothesize that the sequence of activation of cardiomyocytes in different ventricular layers is one of the key factors of spatio-temporal organization of myocardium. Moreover, activation sequence and regional differences in intrinsic electro-mechanical properties of cardiac muscle must be matched in order to optimize myocardial function.
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- O Solovyova
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) 91 Pervomayskaya Street, Ekaterinburg 620219, Russia.
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Protsenko YL, Routkevitch SM, Gur'ev VY, Katsnelson LB, Solovyova O, Lookin ON, Balakin AA, Kohl P, Markhasin VS. Hybrid duplex: a novel method to study the contractile function of heterogeneous myocardium. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2005; 289:H2733-46. [PMID: 16040718 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00306.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In an earlier study, we experimentally mimicked the effects of mechanical interaction between different regions of the ventricular wall by allowing pairs of independently maintained cardiac muscle fibers to interact mechanically in series or in parallel. This simple physiological model of heterogeneous myocardium, which has been termed “duplex,” has provided new insight into basic effects of cardiac electromechanical heterogeneity. Here, we present a novel “hybrid duplex,” where one of the elements is an isolated cardiac muscle and the other a “virtual cardiac muscle.” The virtual muscle is represented by a computational model of cardiomyocyte electromechanical activity. We present in detail the computer-based digital control system that governs the mechanical interaction between virtual and biological muscle, the software used for data analysis, and working implementations of the model. Advantages of the hybrid duplex method are discussed, and experimental recordings are presented for illustration and as proof of the principle.
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- Yuri L Protsenko
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rm. 327, 91 Pervomayskaya ul., Ekaterinburg 620219, Russia.
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Walker ML, Wan X, Kirsch GE, Rosenbaum DS. Hysteresis effect implicates calcium cycling as a mechanism of repolarization alternans. Circulation 2003; 108:2704-9. [PMID: 14581412 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000093276.10885.5b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND T-wave alternans is due to alternation of membrane repolarization at the cellular level and is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death. Recently, a hysteresis effect has been reported in patients whereby T-wave alternans, once induced by rapid heart rate, persists even when heart rate is subsequently slowed. We hypothesized that alternans hysteresis is an intrinsic property of cardiac myocytes, directly related to an underlying mechanism for repolarization alternans that involves intracellular calcium cycling. METHODS AND RESULTS Stepwise pacing was used to induce alternans in Langendorff-perfused guinea pig hearts from which optical action potentials were recorded simultaneously at 256 ventricular sites with voltage-sensitive dyes and in whole-cell patch-clamped cardiac myocytes treated with or without BAPTA-AM (1,2-bis[2-aminophenoxy]ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid tetrakis [acetoxymethyl ester]). Alternans hysteresis was observed in every isolated heart: threshold heart rate for alternans was 280+/-12 bpm, but during subsequent deceleration of pacing, alternans persisted to significantly slower heart rates (238+/-5 bpm, P<0.05). Optical mapping showed that this effect also applied to the threshold for spatially discordant alternans (313+/-2.2 bpm during acceleration versus 250+/-6.6 bpm during deceleration, P<0.05). Alternans hysteresis was also observed in isolated cardiac myocytes. Moreover, calcium chelation by BAPTA-AM raised the threshold for alternans and inhibited hysteresis in a dose-dependent manner with no effect on baseline action potential duration. CONCLUSIONS Alternans hysteresis is an intrinsic property of cardiac myocytes that can lead to persistence of arrhythmogenic discordant alternans even after heart rate is slowed. These results also support an important underlying role of calcium cycling in the mechanism of alternans.
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- Mariah L Walker
- Heart and Vascular Research Center, MetroHealth Campus, Case Western Reserve University, 2500 MetroHealth Dr, Hamman 330, Cleveland, Ohio 44109-1998, USA
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