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Zhang H, Patton HN, Wood GA, Yan P, Loew LM, Acker CD, Walcott GP, Rogers JM. Optical mapping of cardiac electromechanics in beating in vivo hearts. Biophys J 2023; 122:4207-4219. [PMID: 37775969 PMCID: PMC10645561 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023] Open
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Optical mapping has been widely used in the study of cardiac electrophysiology in motion-arrested, ex vivo heart preparations. Recent developments in motion artifact mitigation techniques have made it possible to optically map beating ex vivo hearts, enabling the study of cardiac electromechanics using optical mapping. However, the ex vivo setting imposes limitations on optical mapping such as altered metabolic states, oversimplified mechanical loads, and the absence of neurohormonal regulation. In this study, we demonstrate optical electromechanical mapping in an in vivo heart preparation. Swine hearts were exposed via median sternotomy. Voltage-sensitive dye, either di-4-ANEQ(F)PTEA or di-5-ANEQ(F)PTEA, was injected into the left anterior descending artery. Fluorescence was excited by alternating green and amber light for excitation ratiometry. Cardiac motion during sinus and paced rhythm was tracked using a marker-based method. Motion tracking and excitation ratiometry successfully corrected most motion artifact in the membrane potential signal. Marker-based motion tracking also allowed simultaneous measurement of epicardial deformation. Reconstructed membrane potential and mechanical deformation measurements were validated using monophasic action potentials and sonomicrometry, respectively. Di-5-ANEQ(F)PTEA produced longer working time and higher signal/noise ratio than di-4-ANEQ(F)PTEA. In addition, we demonstrate potential applications of the new optical mapping system including electromechanical mapping during vagal nerve stimulation, fibrillation/defibrillation. and acute regional ischemia. In conclusion, although some technical limitations remain, optical mapping experiments that simultaneously image electrical and mechanical function can be conducted in beating, in vivo hearts.
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- Hanyu Zhang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Zhang H, Patton HN, Nagahawatte ND, Athavale ON, Walcott GP, Cheng LK, Rogers JM. Optical Mapping of Virtual Electrode Polarization Pattern and Its Relationship with Pacemaker Location during Gastric Pacing . ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023; 2023:1-4. [PMID: 38082999 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Gastric rhythmic contractions are regulated by bioelectrical events known as slow waves (SW). Abnormal SW activity is associated with gastric motility disorders. Gastric pacing is a potential treatment method to restore rhythmic SW activity. However, to date, the efficacy of gastric pacing is inconsistent and the underlying mechanisms of gastric pacing are poorly understood. Optical mapping is widely used in cardiac electrophysiology studies. Its immunity to pacing artifacts offers a distinct advantage over conventional electrical mapping for studying pacing. In the present study, we first found that optical mapping can image pacing-induced virtual electrode polarization patterns in the stomach (adjacent regions of depolarized and hyperpolarized tissue). Second, we found that elicited SWs usually (15 of 16) originated from the depolarized areas of the stimulated region (virtual cathodes). To our knowledge, this is the first direct observation of virtual electrode polarization patterns in the stomach. Conclusions: Optical mapping can image virtual electrode polarization patterns during gastric pacing with high spatial resolution.Clinical Relevance- Gastric pacing is a potential therapeutic method for gastric motility disorders. This study provides direct observation of virtual electrode polarization pattern during gastric pacing and improves our understanding of the mechanisms underlying gastric pacing..
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Kappadan V, Sohi A, Parlitz U, Luther S, Uzelac I, Fenton F, Peters NS, Christoph J, Ng FS. Optical mapping of contracting hearts. J Physiol 2023; 601:1353-1370. [PMID: 36866700 PMCID: PMC10952556 DOI: 10.1113/jp283683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023] Open
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Optical mapping is a widely used tool to record and visualize the electrophysiological properties in a variety of myocardial preparations such as Langendorff-perfused isolated hearts, coronary-perfused wedge preparations, and cell culture monolayers. Motion artifact originating from the mechanical contraction of the myocardium creates a significant challenge to performing optical mapping of contracting hearts. Hence, to minimize the motion artifact, cardiac optical mapping studies are mostly performed on non-contracting hearts, where the mechanical contraction is removed using pharmacological excitation-contraction uncouplers. However, such experimental preparations eliminate the possibility of electromechanical interaction, and effects such as mechano-electric feedback cannot be studied. Recent developments in computer vision algorithms and ratiometric techniques have opened the possibility of performing optical mapping studies on isolated contracting hearts. In this review, we discuss the existing techniques and challenges of optical mapping of contracting hearts.
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- Vineesh Kappadan
- National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI)Imperial College LondonLondonUK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI)Imperial College LondonLondonUK
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- Biomedical Physcis GroupMax Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self‐OrganizationGöttingenGermany
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- Biomedical Physcis GroupMax Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self‐OrganizationGöttingenGermany
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- School of PhysicsGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGAUSA
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- School of PhysicsGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaGAUSA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI)Imperial College LondonLondonUK
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- Cardiovascular Research InstituteUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI)Imperial College LondonLondonUK
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Amesz JH, Zhang L, Everts BR, De Groot NMS, Taverne YJHJ. Living myocardial slices: Advancing arrhythmia research. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1076261. [PMID: 36711023 PMCID: PMC9880234 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1076261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Living myocardial slices (LMS) are ultrathin (150-400 µm) sections of intact myocardium that can be used as a comprehensive model for cardiac arrhythmia research. The recent introduction of biomimetic electromechanical cultivation chambers enables long-term cultivation and easy control of living myocardial slices culture conditions. The aim of this review is to present the potential of this biomimetic interface using living myocardial slices in electrophysiological studies outlining advantages, disadvantages and future perspectives of the model. Furthermore, different electrophysiological techniques and their application on living myocardial slices will be discussed. The developments of living myocardial slices in electrophysiology research will hopefully lead to future breakthroughs in the understanding of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms and the development of novel therapeutic options.
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- Jorik H. Amesz
- Translational Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Lab, Lowlands Institute for Bioelectric Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands,Translational Electrophysiology, Lowlands Institute for Bioelectric Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Translational Electrophysiology, Lowlands Institute for Bioelectric Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Translational Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Lab, Lowlands Institute for Bioelectric Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Translational Electrophysiology, Lowlands Institute for Bioelectric Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Translational Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Lab, Lowlands Institute for Bioelectric Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands,*Correspondence: Yannick J. H. J. Taverne,
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Zhang H, Yu H, Walcott GP, Rogers JM. Ectopic foci do not co-locate with ventricular epicardial stretch during early acute regional ischemia in isolated pig hearts. Physiol Rep 2022; 10:e15492. [PMID: 36259098 PMCID: PMC9579492 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Revised: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Ectopic activation during early acute regional ischemia may initiate fatal reentrant arrhythmias. However, the origin of this ectopy remains poorly understood. Studies suggest that systolic stretch arising from dyskinesia in ischemic tissue may cause ectopic depolarization due to cardiac mechanosensitivity. The aim of this study was to investigate the link between mechanical stretch and ectopic electrical activation during early acute regional ischemia. We used a recently developed optical mapping technique capable of simultaneous imaging of mechanical deformation and electrical activation in isolated hearts. Eight domestic swine hearts were prepared in left ventricular working mode (LVW), in which the left ventricle was loaded and contracting. In an additional eight non-working (NW) hearts, contraction was pharmacologically suppressed with blebbistatin and the left ventricle was not loaded. In both groups, the left anterior descending coronary artery was tied below the first diagonal branch. Positive mechanical stretch (bulging) during systole was observed in the ischemic zones of LVW, but not NW, hearts. During ischemia phase 1a (0-15 min post-occlusion), LVW hearts had more ectopic beats than NW hearts (median: 19, interquartile range: 10-28 vs. median: 2, interquartile range: 1-6; p = 0.02); but the difference during phase 1b (15-60 min post-occlusion) was not significant (median: 27, interquartile range: 22-42 vs. median: 16, interquartile range: 12-31; p = 0.37). Ectopic beats arose preferentially from the ischemic border zone in both groups (p < 0.01). In LVW hearts, local mechanical stretch was only occasionally co-located with ectopic foci (9 of 69 ectopic beats). Despite the higher rate of ectopy observed in LVW hearts during ischemia phase 1a, the ectopic beats generally did not arise by the hypothesized mechanism in which ectopic foci are generated by co-local epicardial mechanical stretch.
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- Hanyu Zhang
- Department of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAlabamaUSA
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAlabamaUSA
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- Department of MedicineUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAlabamaUSA
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAlabamaUSA
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Nagahawatte ND, Zhang H, Paskaranandavadivel N, Patton HN, Garrett AS, Angeli-Gordon TR, Nisbet L, Rogers JM, Cheng LK. Gastric pacing response evaluated with simultaneous electrical and optical mapping. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022; 2022:2224-2227. [PMID: 36086523 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Gastric pacing is an attractive therapeutic approach for correcting abnormal bioelectrical activity. While high-resolution (HR) electrical mapping techniques have largely contributed to the current understanding of the effect of pacing on the electrophysiological function, these mapping techniques are restricted to surface contact electrodes and the signal quality can be corrupted by pacing artifacts. Optical mapping of voltage sensitive dyes is an alternative approach used in cardiac research, and the signal quality is not affected by pacing artifacts. In this study, we simultaneously applied HR optical and electrical mapping techniques to evaluate the bioelectrical slow wave response to gastric pacing. The studies were conducted in vivo on porcine stomachs ( n=3) where the gastric electrical activity was entrained using high-energy pacing. The pacing response was optically tracked using voltage-sensitive fluorescent dyes and electrically tracked using surface contact electrodes positioned on adjacent regions. Slow waves were captured optically and electrically and were concordant in time and direction of propagation with comparable mean velocities ([Formula: see text]) and periods ([Formula: see text]). Importantly, the optical signals were free from pacing artifacts otherwise induced in electrical recordings highlighting an advantage of optical mapping. Clinical Relevance- Entrainment mapping of gastric pacing using optical techniques is a major advance for improving the preclinical understanding of the therapy. The findings can thereby inform the efficacy of gastric pacing in treating functional motility disorders.
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Lebert J, Ravi N, Kensah G, Christoph J. Real-Time Optical Mapping of Contracting Cardiac Tissues With GPU-Accelerated Numerical Motion Tracking. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:787627. [PMID: 35686036 PMCID: PMC9172765 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.787627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Optical mapping of action potentials or calcium transients in contracting cardiac tissues are challenging because of the severe sensitivity of the measurements to motion. The measurements rely on the accurate numerical tracking and analysis of fluorescence changes emitted by the tissue as it moves, and inaccurate or no tracking can produce motion artifacts and lead to imprecise measurements that can prohibit the analysis of the data. Recently, it was demonstrated that numerical motion-tracking and -stabilization can effectively inhibit motion artifacts, allowing highly detailed simultaneous measurements of electrophysiological phenomena and tissue mechanics. However, the field of electromechanical optical mapping is still young and under development. To date, the technique is only used by a few laboratories, the processing of the video data is time-consuming and performed offline post-acquisition as it is associated with a considerable demand for computing power. In addition, a systematic review of numerical motion tracking algorithms applicable to optical mapping data is lacking. To address these issues, we evaluated 5 open-source numerical motion-tracking algorithms implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU) and compared their performance when tracking and compensating motion and measuring optical traces in voltage- or calcium-sensitive optical mapping videos of contracting cardiac tissues. Using GPU-accelerated numerical motion tracking, the processing times necessary to analyze optical mapping videos become substantially reduced. We demonstrate that it is possible to track and stabilize motion and create motion-compensated optical maps in real-time with low-resolution (128 x 128 pixels) and high resolution (800 x 800 pixels) optical mapping videos acquired at 500 and 40 fps, respectively. We evaluated the tracking accuracies and motion-stabilization capabilities of the GPU-based algorithms on synthetic optical mapping videos, determined their sensitivity to fluorescence signals and noise, and demonstrate the efficacy of the Farnebäck algorithm with recordings of contracting human cardiac cell cultures and beating hearts from 3 different species (mouse, rabbit, pig) imaged with 4 different high-speed cameras. GPU-accelerated processing provides a substantial increase in processing speed, which could open the path for more widespread use of numerical motion tracking and stabilization algorithms during routine optical mapping studies.
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- Jan Lebert
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), Göttingen, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
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- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), Göttingen, Germany
- Department for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), Göttingen, Germany
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Uzelac I, Crowley CJ, Iravanian S, Kim TY, Cho HC, Fenton FH. Methodology for Cross-Talk Elimination in Simultaneous Voltage and Calcium Optical Mapping Measurements With Semasbestic Wavelengths. Front Physiol 2022; 13:812968. [PMID: 35222080 PMCID: PMC8874316 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.812968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Most cardiac arrhythmias at the whole heart level result from alteration of cell membrane ionic channels and intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+] i ) cycling with emerging spatiotemporal behavior through tissue-level coupling. For example, dynamically induced spatial dispersion of action potential duration, QT prolongation, and alternans are clinical markers for arrhythmia susceptibility in regular and heart-failure patients that originate due to changes of the transmembrane voltage (V m) and [Ca2+] i . We present an optical-mapping methodology that permits simultaneous measurements of the V m - [Ca2+] i signals using a single-camera without cross-talk, allowing quantitative characterization of favorable/adverse cell and tissue dynamical effects occurring from remodeling and/or drugs in heart failure. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally in six different species the existence of a family of excitation wavelengths, we termed semasbestic, that give no change in signal for one dye, and thus can be used to record signals from another dye, guaranteeing zero cross-talk.
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- Ilija Uzelac
- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Division of Cardiology, Section of Electrophysiology, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
- The Sibley Heart Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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Cumberland MJ, Riebel LL, Roy A, O’Shea C, Holmes AP, Denning C, Kirchhof P, Rodriguez B, Gehmlich K. Basic Research Approaches to Evaluate Cardiac Arrhythmia in Heart Failure and Beyond. Front Physiol 2022; 13:806366. [PMID: 35197863 PMCID: PMC8859441 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.806366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Patients with heart failure often develop cardiac arrhythmias. The mechanisms and interrelations linking heart failure and arrhythmias are not fully understood. Historically, research into arrhythmias has been performed on affected individuals or in vivo (animal) models. The latter however is constrained by interspecies variation, demands to reduce animal experiments and cost. Recent developments in in vitro induced pluripotent stem cell technology and in silico modelling have expanded the number of models available for the evaluation of heart failure and arrhythmia. An agnostic approach, combining the modalities discussed here, has the potential to improve our understanding for appraising the pathology and interactions between heart failure and arrhythmia and can provide robust and validated outcomes in a variety of research settings. This review discusses the state of the art models, methodologies and techniques used in the evaluation of heart failure and arrhythmia and will highlight the benefits of using them in combination. Special consideration is paid to assessing the pivotal role calcium handling has in the development of heart failure and arrhythmia.
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- Max J. Cumberland
- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Stem Cell Biology Unit, Biodiscovery Institute, British Heart Foundation Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- University Heart and Vascular Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford and British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Müllenbroich MC, Kelly A, Acker C, Bub G, Bruegmann T, Di Bona A, Entcheva E, Ferrantini C, Kohl P, Lehnart SE, Mongillo M, Parmeggiani C, Richter C, Sasse P, Zaglia T, Sacconi L, Smith GL. Novel Optics-Based Approaches for Cardiac Electrophysiology: A Review. Front Physiol 2021; 12:769586. [PMID: 34867476 PMCID: PMC8637189 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.769586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Optical techniques for recording and manipulating cellular electrophysiology have advanced rapidly in just a few decades. These developments allow for the analysis of cardiac cellular dynamics at multiple scales while largely overcoming the drawbacks associated with the use of electrodes. The recent advent of optogenetics opens up new possibilities for regional and tissue-level electrophysiological control and hold promise for future novel clinical applications. This article, which emerged from the international NOTICE workshop in 2018, reviews the state-of-the-art optical techniques used for cardiac electrophysiological research and the underlying biophysics. The design and performance of optical reporters and optogenetic actuators are reviewed along with limitations of current probes. The physics of light interaction with cardiac tissue is detailed and associated challenges with the use of optical sensors and actuators are presented. Case studies include the use of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching and super-resolution microscopy to explore the micro-structure of cardiac cells and a review of two photon and light sheet technologies applied to cardiac tissue. The emergence of cardiac optogenetics is reviewed and the current work exploring the potential clinical use of optogenetics is also described. Approaches which combine optogenetic manipulation and optical voltage measurement are discussed, in terms of platforms that allow real-time manipulation of whole heart electrophysiology in open and closed-loop systems to study optimal ways to terminate spiral arrhythmias. The design and operation of optics-based approaches that allow high-throughput cardiac electrophysiological assays is presented. Finally, emerging techniques of photo-acoustic imaging and stress sensors are described along with strategies for future development and establishment of these techniques in mainstream electrophysiological research.
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, United States
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- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, University Heart Center and Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Heart Research Center Göttingen, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells” (MBExC), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
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- German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology I, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, University Heart Center and Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- National Institute of Optics, National Research Council, Florence, Italy
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Martišienė I, Mačianskienė R, Benetis R, Jurevičius J. Cardiac Optical Mapping in Situ in Swine Models: A View of the Current Situation. MEDICINA-LITHUANIA 2020; 56:medicina56110620. [PMID: 33217906 PMCID: PMC7698624 DOI: 10.3390/medicina56110620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Optical mapping is recognized as a promising tool for the registration of electrical activity in the heart. Most cardiac optical mapping experiments are performed in ex vivo isolated heart models. However, the electrophysiological properties of the heart are highly influenced by the autonomic nervous system as well as humoral regulation; therefore, in vivo investigations of heart activity in large animals are definitely preferred. Furthermore, such investigations can be considered the last step before clinical application. Recently, two comprehensive studies have examined optical mapping approaches for pig hearts in situ (in vivo), likely advancing the methodological capacity to perform complex electrophysiological investigations of the heart. Both studies had the same aim, i.e., to develop high-spatiotemporal-resolution optical mapping suitable for registration of electrical activity of pig heart in situ, but the methods chosen were different. In this brief review, we analyse and compare the results of recent studies and discuss their translational potential for in situ cardiac optical mapping applications in large animals. We focus on the modes of blood circulation that are employed, the use of different voltage-sensitive dyes and their loading procedures, and ways of eliminating contraction artefacts. Finally, we evaluate the possible scenarios for optical mapping (OM) application in large animals in situ and infer which scenario is optimal.
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- Irma Martišienė
- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania; (I.M.); (R.M.); (R.B.)
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania; (I.M.); (R.M.); (R.B.)
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania; (I.M.); (R.M.); (R.B.)
- Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50161 Kaunas, Lithuania; (I.M.); (R.M.); (R.B.)
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Acker CD, Yan P, Loew LM. Recent progress in optical voltage-sensor technology and applications to cardiac research: from single cells to whole hearts. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 154:3-10. [PMID: 31474387 PMCID: PMC7048644 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The first workshop on Novel Optics-based approaches for Cardiac Electrophysiology (NOtiCE) was held in Florence Italy in 2018. Here, we learned how optical approaches have shaped our basic understanding of cardiac electrophysiology and how new technologies and approaches are being developed and validated to advance the field. Several technologies are being developed that may one day allow for new clinical approaches for diagnosing cardiac disorders and possibly intervening to treat human patients. In this review, we discuss several technologies and approaches to optical voltage imaging with voltage-sensitive dyes. We highlight the development and application of fluorinated and long wavelength voltage-sensitive dyes. These optical voltage sensors have now been applied and well validated in several different assays from cultured human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to whole hearts in-vivo. Imaging concepts such as dual wavelength ratiometric techniques, which are crucial to maximizing the information from optical sensors by increasing the useful signal and eliminating noise and artifacts, are presented. Finally, novel voltage sensors including photoacoustic voltage-sensitive dyes, their current capabilities and potential advantages, are introduced.
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- Corey D Acker
- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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O'Shea C, Kabir SN, Holmes AP, Lei M, Fabritz L, Rajpoot K, Pavlovic D. Cardiac optical mapping - State-of-the-art and future challenges. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2020; 126:105804. [PMID: 32681973 PMCID: PMC7456775 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2020.105804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Cardiac optical mapping is a fluorescent imaging method to study electrical behaviour and calcium handling in the heart. Optical mapping provides higher spatio-temporal resolution than electrode techniques, allowing unique insights into cardiac electrophysiology in health and disease from a variety of pre-clinical models. Both transmembrane voltage and intracellular calcium dynamics can be studied with the use of appropriate fluorescent dyes. Optical mapping has traditionally required the use of mechanical uncouplers, however computational and technical developments have lessened the requirement for these agents. Novel fluorescent dyes have been developed to optimise spectral properties, experimental timescales, biological compatibility and fluorescence output. The combination of these developments has made possible novel mapping experiments, including recent in vivo application of the technique.
Cardiac optical mapping utilises fluorescent dyes to directly image the electrical function of the heart at a high spatio-temporal resolution which far exceeds electrode techniques. It has therefore become an invaluable tool in cardiac electrophysiological research to map the propagation of heterogeneous electrical signals across the myocardium. In this review, we introduce the principles behind cardiac optical mapping and discuss some of the challenges and state of the art in the field. Key advancements discussed include newly developed fluorescent indicators, tools for the analysis of complex datasets, panoramic imaging systems and technical and computational approaches to realise optical mapping in freely beating hearts.
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- Christopher O'Shea
- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Department Cardiology, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
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Kappadan V, Telele S, Uzelac I, Fenton F, Parlitz U, Luther S, Christoph J. High-Resolution Optical Measurement of Cardiac Restitution, Contraction, and Fibrillation Dynamics in Beating vs. Blebbistatin-Uncoupled Isolated Rabbit Hearts. Front Physiol 2020; 11:464. [PMID: 32528304 PMCID: PMC7264405 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Optical mapping is a high-resolution fluorescence imaging technique, that uses voltage- or calcium-sensitive dyes to visualize electrical excitation waves on the heart surface. However, optical mapping is very susceptible to the motion of cardiac tissue, which results in so-called motion artifacts in the fluorescence signal. To avoid motion artifacts, contractions of the heart muscle are typically suppressed using pharmacological excitation-contraction uncoupling agents, such as Blebbistatin. The use of pharmacological agents, however, may influence cardiac electrophysiology. Recently, it has been shown that numerical motion tracking can significantly reduce motion-related artifacts in optical mapping, enabling the simultaneous optical measurement of cardiac electrophysiology and mechanics. Here, we combine ratiometric optical mapping with numerical motion tracking to further enhance the robustness and accuracy of these measurements. We evaluate the method's performance by imaging and comparing cardiac restitution and ventricular fibrillation (VF) dynamics in contracting, non-working vs. Blebbistatin-arrested Langendorff-perfused rabbit hearts (N = 10). We found action potential durations (APD) to be, on average, 25 ± 5% shorter in contracting hearts compared to hearts uncoupled with Blebbistatin. The relative shortening of the APD was found to be larger at higher frequencies. VF was found to be significantly accelerated in contracting hearts, i.e., 9 ± 2Hz with Blebbistatin and 15 ± 4Hz without Blebbistatin, and maintained a broader frequency spectrum. In contracting hearts, the average number of phase singularities was NPS = 11 ± 4 compared to NPS = 6 ± 3 with Blebbistatin during VF on the anterior ventricular surface. VF inducibility was reduced with Blebbistatin. We found the effect of Blebbistatin to be concentration-dependent and reversible by washout. Aside from the electrophysiological characterization, we also measured and analyzed cardiac motion. Our findings may have implications for the interpretation of optical mapping data, and highlight that physiological conditions, such as oxygenation and metabolic demand, must be carefully considered in ex vivo imaging experiments.
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- Vineesh Kappadan
- Research Group Biomedical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group Biomedical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), Partnersite Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Research Group Biomedical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), Partnersite Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group Biomedical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), Partnersite Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Pharmacology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group Biomedical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), Partnersite Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Optical mapping of the pig heart in situ under artificial blood circulation. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8548. [PMID: 32444634 PMCID: PMC7244500 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65464-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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The emergence of optical imaging has revolutionized the investigation of cardiac electrical activity and associated disorders in various cardiac pathologies. The electrical signals of the heart and the propagation pathways are crucial for elucidating the mechanisms of various cardiac pathological conditions, including arrhythmia. The synthesis of near-infrared voltage-sensitive dyes and the voltage sensitivity of the FDA-approved dye Cardiogreen have increased the importance of optical mapping (OM) as a prospective tool in clinical practice. We aimed to develop a method for the high-spatiotemporal-resolution OM of the large animal hearts in situ using di-4-ANBDQBS and Cardiogreen under patho/physiological conditions. OM was adapted to monitor cardiac electrical behaviour in an open-chest pig heart model with physiological or artificial blood circulation. We detail the methods and display the OM data obtained using di-4-ANBDQBS and Cardiogreen. Activation time, action potential duration, repolarization time and conduction velocity maps were constructed. The technique was applied to track cardiac electrical activity during regional ischaemia and arrhythmia. Our study is the first to apply high-spatiotemporal-resolution OM in the pig heart in situ to record cardiac electrical activity qualitatively under artificial blood perfusion. The use of an FDA-approved voltage-sensitive dye and artificial blood perfusion in a swine model, which is generally accepted as a valuable pre-clinical model, demonstrates the promise of OM for clinical application.
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Sensing Senses: Optical Biosensors to Study Gustation. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20071811. [PMID: 32218129 PMCID: PMC7180777 DOI: 10.3390/s20071811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The five basic taste modalities, sweet, bitter, umami, salty and sour induce changes of Ca2+ levels, pH and/or membrane potential in taste cells of the tongue and/or in neurons that convey and decode gustatory signals to the brain. Optical biosensors, which can be either synthetic dyes or genetically encoded proteins whose fluorescence spectra depend on levels of Ca2+, pH or membrane potential, have been used in primary cells/tissues or in recombinant systems to study taste-related intra- and intercellular signaling mechanisms or to discover new ligands. Taste-evoked responses were measured by microscopy achieving high spatial and temporal resolution, while plate readers were employed for higher throughput screening. Here, these approaches making use of fluorescent optical biosensors to investigate specific taste-related questions or to screen new agonists/antagonists for the different taste modalities were reviewed systematically. Furthermore, in the context of recent developments in genetically encoded sensors, 3D cultures and imaging technologies, we propose new feasible approaches for studying taste physiology and for compound screening.
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Nesmith HW, Zhang H, Rogers JM. Optical mapping of electromechanics in intact organs. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2019; 245:368-373. [PMID: 31842618 DOI: 10.1177/1535370219894942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Optical mapping has become a widely used and important method in cardiac electrophysiology. The method typically uses voltage-sensitive fluorescent dyes and high-speed cameras to image propagation of electrical waves. However, signals are highly susceptible to artifact caused by motion of the target organ. Consequently, cardiac optical mapping is traditionally performed in isolated, perfused organs whose contraction has been pharmacologically arrested. This has prevented optical mapping from being used to study interactions between electrical and mechanical motion. However, recently, a number of groups have developed methods to implement cardiac optical mapping in the presence of motion. These methods employ two basic strategies: (1) compensate for motion by measuring it or (2) ratiometry. In ratiometry, two signals are recorded from each site. The signals have differing sensitivity to membrane potential, but common motion artifact, which can be cancelled by taking the ratio of the two signals. Some methods use both of these strategies. Methods that measure motion have the additional advantage that this information can be used to quantify the organ’s mechanical function. Doing so enables combined “electromechanical mapping,” which allows optical study of electromechanical interactions. By allowing recording in the presence of motion, the new methods open the door to optical recording in in-vivo preparations. In addition, it is possible to implement electromechanical optical mapping techniques in organ systems other than the heart. For example, it was recently shown that optical mapping of slow wave propagation in the swine stomach is feasible. Such studies have the potential to uncover new information on the role of dysrhythmic slow wave propagation in gastric motility disorders. Impact statement Electrical and mechanical functions in the heart are bidirectionally coupled, yet are usually studied separately because of the different instrumentation technologies that are used in the two areas. Optical mapping is a powerful and widespread tool for imaging electrical propagation, but has traditionally required mechanical function to be arrested. Recently new methods have been devised that enable optical mapping to be performed in beating hearts and also to simultaneously quantify mechanical function. These new technologies promise to yield new information about electromechanical interactions in normal and pathological settings. They are also beginning to find application in other organ systems such as the gastrointestinal tract where they may provide new insight into motility disorders.
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- Haley W Nesmith
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Yudovich S, Shani L, Grupi A, Bar-Elli O, Steinitz D, Oron D, Weiss S. Ratiometric widefield imaging with spectrally balanced detection. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 10:5385-5394. [PMID: 31646053 PMCID: PMC6788590 DOI: 10.1364/boe.10.005385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 08/12/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Ratiometric imaging is an invaluable tool for quantitative microscopy, allowing for robust detection of FRET, anisotropy, and spectral shifts of nano-scale optical probes in response to local physical and chemical variations such as local pH, ion composition, and electric potential. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a scheme for widefield ratiometric imaging that allows for continuous tuning of the cutoff wavelength between its two spectral channels. This scheme is based on angle-tuning the image splitting dichroic beamsplitter, similar to previous works on tunable interference filters. This configuration allows for ratiometric imaging of spectrally heterogeneous samples, which require spectral tunability of the detection path in order to achieve good spectrally balanced ratiometric detection.
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- Shimon Yudovich
- Department of Physics, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Uzelac I, Crowley CJ, Fenton FH. Isosbestic Point in Optical Mapping; Theoretical and Experimental Determination With Di-4-ANBDQPQ Transmembrane Voltage Sensitive Dye. COMPUTING IN CARDIOLOGY 2019; 46:10.22489/CinC.2019.414. [PMID: 34722782 PMCID: PMC8552219 DOI: 10.22489/cinc.2019.414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Optical mapping methods utilize fluorescence dyes to measure dynamic response of cardiac tissue such as changes in transmembrane potential (Vm). For the commonly used Vm sensitive dyes, a dye absorption and emission spectra shift as Vm changes. Signals relevant to Vm are calculated as a relative fluorescence change with respect to the fluorescence baseline. The amplitude of the change depends on the long-pass (LP) filter cut-on wavelength, placed on the sensor side, and the excitation wavelength. An excitation wavelength near the absorption peak, termed the isosbestic point, results in minimal absorption coefficient change as absorption spectra shifts. Consequentially the fluorescence intensity virtually does not change, when fluorescence across the entire emission spectra is measured, irrelevant of Vm changes. In this study we experimentally determined the isosbestic point for a near infrared dye Di-4-ANBDQPQ. We then present a theoretical study examining the dye linear or non-linear response as the fractional fluorescence change of Vm change, due to emission spectra shift and amplitude change, over a range of excitation wavelengths and LP filters. Linear "optical" response is important to quantify certain aspects of cardiac dynamics such as the action potential (AP) shape and duration, especially when studying drug effects and dynamical substrates for arrhythmia development.
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- Ilija Uzelac
- School of Physics - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Plasma Membrane Potential of Candida albicans Measured by Di-4-ANEPPS Fluorescence Depends on Growth Phase and Regulatory Factors. Microorganisms 2019; 7:microorganisms7040110. [PMID: 31022974 PMCID: PMC6518178 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms7040110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Revised: 04/13/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The potential of the plasma membrane (Δѱ) regulates the electrochemical potential between the outer and inner sides of cell membranes. The opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, regulates the membrane potential in response to environmental conditions, as well as the physiological state of the cell. Here we demonstrate a new method for detection of cell membrane depolarization/permeabilization in C. albicans using the potentiometric zwitterionic dye di-4-ANEPPS. Di-4-ANEPPS measures the changes in the cell Δѱ depending on the phases of growth and external factors regulating Δѱ, such as potassium or calcium chlorides, amiodarone or DM-11 (inhibitor of H+-ATPase). We also demonstrated that di-4-ANEPPS is a good tool for fast measurement of the influence of amphipathic compounds on Δѱ.
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Zhang H, Yu H, Walcott GP, Paskaranandavadivel N, Cheng LK, O’Grady G, Rogers JM. High-resolution optical mapping of gastric slow wave propagation. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2019; 31:e13449. [PMID: 30129082 PMCID: PMC6724537 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.13449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Improved understanding of the details of gastric slow wave propagation could potentially inform new diagnosis and treatment options for stomach motility disorders. Optical mapping has been used extensively in cardiac electrophysiology. Although optical mapping has a number of advantages relative to electrical mapping, optical signals are highly sensitive to motion artifact. We recently introduced a novel cardiac optical mapping method that corrects motion artifact and enables optical mapping to be performed in beating hearts. Here, we reengineer the method as an experimental tool to map gastric slow waves. METHODS The method was developed and tested in 12 domestic farm pigs. Stomachs were exposed by laparotomy and stained with the voltage-sensitive fluorescence dye di-4-ANEPPS through a catheter placed in the gastroepiploic artery. Fiducial markers for motion tracking were attached to the serosa. The dye was excited by 450 or 505 nm light on alternate frames of an imaging camera running at 300 Hz. Emitted fluorescence was imaged between 607 and 695 nm. The optical slow wave signal was reconstructed using a combination of motion tracking and excitation ratiometry to suppress motion artifact. Optical slow wave signals were compared with simultaneously recorded bipolar electrograms and suction electrode signals, which approximate membrane potential. KEY RESULTS The morphology of optical slow waves was consistent with previously published microelectrode recordings and simultaneously recorded suction electrode signals. The timing of the optical slow wave signals was consistent with the bipolar electrograms. CONCLUSIONS AND INFERENCES Optical mapping of slow wave propagation in the stomach is feasible.
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- Hanyu Zhang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States,Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States,Corresponding author: 1670 University Blvd, Volker Hall B140, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA, (205) 975-2102,
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Christoph J, Luther S. Marker-Free Tracking for Motion Artifact Compensation and Deformation Measurements in Optical Mapping Videos of Contracting Hearts. Front Physiol 2018; 9:1483. [PMID: 30450053 PMCID: PMC6224482 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Optical mapping is a high-resolution fluorescence imaging technique, which provides highly detailed visualizations of the electrophysiological wave phenomena, which trigger the beating of the heart. Recent advancements in optical mapping have demonstrated that the technique can now be performed with moving and contracting hearts and that motion and motion artifacts, once a major limitation, can now be overcome by numerically tracking and stabilizing the heart's motion. As a result, the optical measurement of electrical activity can be obtained from the moving heart surface in a co-moving frame of reference and motion artifacts can be reduced substantially. The aim of this study is to assess and validate the performance of a 2D marker-free motion tracking algorithm, which tracks motion and non-rigid deformations in video images. Because the tracking algorithm does not require markers to be attached to the tissue, it is necessary to verify that it accurately tracks the displacements of the cardiac tissue surface, which not only contracts and deforms, but also fluoresces and exhibits spatio-temporal physiology-related intensity changes. We used computer simulations to generate synthetic optical mapping videos, which show the contracting and fluorescing ventricular heart surface. The synthetic data reproduces experimental data as closely as possible and shows electrical waves propagating across the deforming tissue surface, as seen during voltage-sensitive imaging. We then tested the motion tracking and motion-stabilization algorithm on the synthetic as well as on experimental data. The motion tracking and motion-stabilization algorithm decreases motion artifacts approximately by 80% and achieves sub-pixel precision when tracking motion of 1–10 pixels (in a video image with 100 by 100 pixels), effectively inhibiting motion such that little residual motion remains after tracking and motion-stabilization. To demonstrate the performance of the algorithm, we present optical maps with a substantial reduction in motion artifacts showing action potential waves propagating across the moving and strongly deforming ventricular heart surface. The tracking algorithm reliably tracks motion if the tissue surface is illuminated homogeneously and shows sufficient contrast or texture which can be tracked or if the contrast is artificially or numerically enhanced. In this study, we also show how a reduction in dissociation-related motion artifacts can be quantified and linked to tracking precision. Our results can be used to advance optical mapping techniques, enabling them to image contracting hearts, with the ultimate goal of studying the mutual coupling of electrical and mechanical phenomena in healthy and diseased hearts.
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- Jan Christoph
- Biomedical Physics Group, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Göttingen, Germany.,Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Biomedical Physics Group, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Göttingen, Germany.,Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Pharmacology, University Medical Center, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Kay MW, Efimov IR. Optical Mapping of Cardiac Electromechanics. Biophys J 2018; 111:269-270. [PMID: 27463128 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.04.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 04/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Matthew W Kay
- Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.
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Electromechanical optical mapping. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 130:150-169. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2017] [Accepted: 09/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Paskaranandavadivel N, Cheng LK, Du P, Rogers JM, O'Grady G. High-resolution mapping of gastric slow-wave recovery profiles: biophysical model, methodology, and demonstration of applications. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2017; 313:G265-G276. [PMID: 28546283 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00127.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Revised: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Slow waves play a central role in coordinating gastric motor activity. High-resolution mapping of extracellular potentials from the stomach provides spatiotemporal detail on normal and dysrhythmic slow-wave patterns. All mapping studies to date have focused exclusively on tissue activation; however, the recovery phase contains vital information on repolarization heterogeneity, the excitable gap, and refractory tail interactions but has not been investigated. Here, we report a method to identify the recovery phase in slow-wave mapping data. We first developed a mathematical model of unipolar extracellular potentials that result from slow-wave propagation. These simulations showed that tissue repolarization in such a signal is defined by the steepest upstroke beyond the activation phase (activation was defined by accepted convention as the steepest downstroke). Next, we mapped slow-wave propagation in anesthetized pigs by recording unipolar extracellular potentials from a high-resolution array of electrodes on the serosal surface. Following the simulation result, a wavelet transform technique was applied to detect repolarization in each signal by finding the maximum positive slope beyond activation. Activation-recovery (ARi) and recovery-activation (RAi) intervals were then computed. We hypothesized that these measurements of recovery profile would differ for slow waves recorded during normal and spatially dysrhythmic propagation. We found that the ARi of normal activity was greater than dysrhythmic activity (5.1 ± 0.8 vs. 3.8 ± 0.7 s; P < 0.05), whereas RAi was lower (9.7 ± 1.3 vs. 12.2 ± 2.5 s; P < 0.05). During normal propagation, RAi and ARi were linearly related with negative unit slope indicating entrainment of the entire mapped region. This relationship was weakened during dysrhythmia (slope: -0.96 ± 0.2 vs -0.71 ± 0.3; P < 0.05).NEW & NOTEWORTHY The theoretical basis of the extracellular gastric slow-wave recovery phase was defined using mathematical modeling. A novel technique utilizing the wavelet transform was developed and validated to detect the extracellular slow-wave recovery phase. In dysrhythmic wavefronts, the activation-to-recovery interval (ARi) was shorter and recovery-to-activation interval (RAi) was longer compared with normal wavefronts. During normal activation, RAi vs. ARi had a slope of -1, whereas the weakening of the slope indicated a dysrhythmic propagation.
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- N Paskaranandavadivel
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; .,Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.,Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; and
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.,Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Mačianskienė R, Almanaitytė M, Treinys R, Navalinskas A, Benetis R, Jurevičius J. Spectral characteristics of voltage-sensitive indocyanine green fluorescence in the heart. Sci Rep 2017; 7:7983. [PMID: 28801595 PMCID: PMC5554165 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08168-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 07/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescent dye has been approved by the FDA for use in medical diagnostics. Recently, we demonstrated that ICG dye has voltage-sensitive properties with a dual-component (fast and slow) response in the Langendorff-perfused rabbit heart. Here, we extended our studies by showing the different spectral properties of both components for analysis of the fractional change in ICG fluorescence in response to voltage changes. We used light from four LEDs to obtain excitation; emission was measured using an EMCCD camera with band-pass filters and a spectrometer. We applied a graphical model with Gaussian functions to construct and evaluate the individual emission curves and calculated the voltage-sensitive portion of each component of the ICG fluorescence in the rabbit heart. The results revealed that each isolated component (fast and slow) emanates from a unique ICG pool in a different environment within the cell membrane and that each component is also composed of two constituents (ICG-monomeric and ICG-aggregated). We propose the existence of different voltage-sensitive mechanisms for the components: (I) electrochromism and field-induced reorientation for the fast component; and (II) field-induced dye squeezing that amplifies intermolecular interactions, resulting in self-quenching of the dye fluorescence, for the slow component.
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- Regina Mačianskienė
- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
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Zhang H, Iijima K, Huang J, Walcott GP, Rogers JM. Optical Mapping of Membrane Potential and Epicardial Deformation in Beating Hearts. Biophys J 2017; 111:438-451. [PMID: 27463145 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.03.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2015] [Revised: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Cardiac optical mapping uses potentiometric fluorescent dyes to image membrane potential (Vm). An important limitation of conventional optical mapping is that contraction is usually arrested pharmacologically to prevent motion artifacts from obscuring Vm signals. However, these agents may alter electrophysiology, and by abolishing contraction, also prevent optical mapping from being used to study coupling between electrical and mechanical function. Here, we present a method to simultaneously map Vm and epicardial contraction in the beating heart. Isolated perfused swine hearts were stained with di-4-ANEPPS and fiducial markers were glued to the epicardium for motion tracking. The heart was imaged at 750 Hz with a video camera. Fluorescence was excited with cyan or blue LEDs on alternating camera frames, thus providing a 375-Hz effective sampling rate. Marker tracking enabled the pixel(s) imaging any epicardial site within the marked region to be identified in each camera frame. Cyan- and blue-elicited fluorescence have different sensitivities to Vm, but other signal features, primarily motion artifacts, are common. Thus, taking the ratio of fluorescence emitted by a motion-tracked epicardial site in adjacent frames removes artifacts, leaving Vm (excitation ratiometry). Reconstructed Vm signals were validated by comparison to monophasic action potentials and to conventional optical mapping signals. Binocular imaging with additional video cameras enabled marker motion to be tracked in three dimensions. From these data, epicardial deformation during the cardiac cycle was quantified by computing finite strain fields. We show that the method can simultaneously map Vm and strain in a left-sided working heart preparation and can image changes in both electrical and mechanical function 5 min after the induction of regional ischemia. By allowing high-resolution optical mapping in the absence of electromechanical uncoupling agents, the method relieves a long-standing limitation of optical mapping and has potential to enhance new studies in coupled cardiac electromechanics.
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- Hanyu Zhang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Wigoda N, Pasmanik-Chor M, Yang T, Yu L, Moshelion M, Moran N. Differential gene expression and transport functionality in the bundle sheath versus mesophyll - a potential role in leaf mineral homeostasis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:3179-3190. [PMID: 28407076 PMCID: PMC5853479 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Under fluctuating ambient conditions, the ability of plants to maintain hydromineral homeostasis requires the tight control of long distance transport. This includes the control of radial transport within leaves, from veins to mesophyll. The bundle sheath is a structure that tightly wraps around leaf vasculature. It has been suggested to act as a selective barrier in the context of radial transport. This suggestion is based on recent physiological transport assays of bundle sheath cells (BSCs), as well as the anatomy of these cells.We hypothesized that the unique transport functionality of BSCs is apparent in their transcriptome. To test this, we compared the transcriptomes of individually hand-picked protoplasts of GFP-labeled BSCs and non-labeled mesophyll cells (MCs) from the leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Of the 90 genes differentially expressed between BSCs and MCs, 45% are membrane related and 20% transport related, a prominent example being the proton pump AHA2. Electrophysiological assays showed that the major AKT2-like membrane K+ conductances of BSCs and MCs had different voltage dependency ranges. Taken together, these differences may cause simultaneous but oppositely directed transmembrane K+ fluxes in BSCs and MCs, in otherwise similar conditions.
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- Noa Wigoda
- The R.H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The R.H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- The R.H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The R.H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- The R.H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The R.H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- The R.H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The R.H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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Martišienė I, Mačianskienė R, Treinys R, Navalinskas A, Almanaitytė M, Karčiauskas D, Kučinskas A, Grigalevičiūtė R, Zigmantaitė V, Benetis R, Jurevičius J. Voltage-Sensitive Fluorescence of Indocyanine Green in the Heart. Biophys J 2017; 110:723-732. [PMID: 26840736 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2015] [Revised: 12/15/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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So far, the optical mapping of cardiac electrical signals using voltage-sensitive fluorescent dyes has only been performed in experimental studies because these dyes are not yet approved for clinical use. It was recently reported that the well-known and widely used fluorescent dye indocyanine green (ICG), which has FDA approval, exhibits voltage sensitivity in various tissues, thus raising hopes that electrical activity could be optically mapped in the clinic. The aim of this study was to explore the possibility of using ICG to monitor cardiac electrical activity. Optical mapping experiments were performed on Langendorff rabbit hearts stained with ICG and perfused with electromechanical uncouplers. The residual contraction force and electrical action potentials were recorded simultaneously. Our research confirms that ICG is a voltage-sensitive dye with a dual-component (fast and slow) response to membrane potential changes. The fast component of the optical signal (OS) can have opposite polarities in different parts of the fluorescence spectrum. In contrast, the polarity of the slow component remains the same throughout the entire spectrum. Separating the OS into these components revealed two different voltage-sensitivity mechanisms for ICG. The fast component of the OS appears to be electrochromic in nature, whereas the slow component may arise from the redistribution of the dye molecules within or around the membrane. Both components quite accurately track the time of electrical signal propagation, but only the fast component is suitable for estimating the shape and duration of action potentials. Because ICG has voltage-sensitive properties in the entire heart, we suggest that it can be used to monitor cardiac electrical behavior in the clinic.
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Spencer TM, Blumenstein RF, Pryse KM, Lee SL, Glaubke DA, Carlson BE, Elson EL, Genin GM. Fibroblasts Slow Conduction Velocity in a Reconstituted Tissue Model of Fibrotic Cardiomyopathy. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2016; 3:3022-3028. [PMID: 31119190 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Myocardial function deteriorates over the course of fibrotic cardiomyopathy, due to electrophysiological and mechanical effects of myofibroblasts that are not completely understood. Although a range of experimental model systems and associated theoretical treatments exist at the levels of isolated cardiomyocytes and planar co-cultures of myofibroblasts and cardiomyocytes, interactions between these cell types at the tissue level are less clear. We studied these interactions through an engineered heart tissue (EHT) model of fibrotic myocardium and a mathematical model of the effects of cellular composition on EHT impulse conduction velocity. The EHT model allowed for modulation of cardiomyocyte and myofibroblast volume fractions, and observation of cell behavior in a three-dimensional environment that is more similar to native heart tissue than is planar cell culture. The cardiomyocyte and myofibroblast volume fractions determined the retardation of impulse conduction (spread of the action potential) in EHTs as measured by changes of the fluorescence of the Ca2+ probe, Fluo-2. Interpretation through our model showed retardation far in excess of predictions by homogenization theory, with conduction ceasing far below the fibroblast volume fraction associated with steric percolation. Results point to an important multiscale structural role of myofibroblasts in attenuating impulse conduction in fibrotic cardiomyopathy.
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- Teresa M Spencer
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 660 S. Euclid Drive, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, NCRC B10 A126, 2800 Plymouth Rd., University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 660 S. Euclid Drive, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA.,NSF Center for Engineering MechanoBiology, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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Technical advances in studying cardiac electrophysiology - Role of rabbit models. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 121:97-109. [PMID: 27210306 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2016.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2016] [Accepted: 05/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Cardiovascular research has made a major contribution to an unprecedented 10 year increase in life expectancy during the last 50 years: most of this increase due to a decline in mortality from heart disease and stroke. The majority of the basic cardiovascular science discoveries, which have led to this impressive extension of human life, came from investigations conducted in various small and large animal models, ranging from mouse to pig. The small animal models are currently popular because they are amenable to genetic engineering and are relatively inexpensive. The large animal models are favored at the translational stage of the investigation, as they are anatomically and physiologically more proximal to humans, and can be implanted with various devices; however, they are expensive and less amenable to genetic manipulations. With the advent of CRISPR genetic engineering technology and the advances in implantable bioelectronics, the large animal models will continue to advance. The rabbit model is particularly poised to become one of the most popular among the animal models that recapitulate human heart diseases. Here we review an array of the rabbit models of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, as well as a range of the imaging and device technologies enabling these investigations.
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Sun S, Kanagaraj J, Cho L, Kang D, Xiao S, Cho M. Characterization of Subcellular Responses Induced by Exposure of Microbubbles to Astrocytes. J Neurotrauma 2015; 32:1441-8. [DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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- Shan Sun
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Rodriguez MP, Nygren A. Motion Estimation in Cardiac Fluorescence Imaging With Scale-Space Landmarks and Optical Flow: A Comparative Study. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2015; 62:774-82. [DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2014.2364959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Bourgeois EB, Johnson BN, McCoy AJ, Trippa L, Cohen AS, Marsh ED. A toolbox for spatiotemporal analysis of voltage-sensitive dye imaging data in brain slices. PLoS One 2014; 9:e108686. [PMID: 25259520 PMCID: PMC4178182 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDI) can simultaneously monitor the spatiotemporal electrical dynamics of thousands of neurons and is often used to identify functional differences in models of neurological disease. While the chief advantage of VSDI is the ability to record spatiotemporal activity, there are no tools available to visualize and statistically compare activity across the full spatiotemporal range of the VSDI dataset. Investigators commonly analyze only a subset of the data, and a majority of the dataset is routinely excluded from analysis. We have developed a software toolbox that simplifies visual inspection of VSDI data, and permits unaided statistical comparison across spatial and temporal dimensions. First, the three-dimensional VSDI dataset (x,y,time) is geometrically transformed into a two-dimensional spatiotemporal map of activity. Second, statistical comparison between groups is performed using a non-parametric permutation test. The result is a 2D map of all significant differences in both space and time. Here, we used the toolbox to identify functional differences in activity in VSDI data from acute hippocampal slices obtained from epileptic Arx conditional knock-out and control mice. Maps of spatiotemporal activity were produced and analyzed to identify differences in the activity evoked by stimulation of each of two axonal inputs to the hippocampus: the perforant pathway and the temporoammonic pathway. In mutant hippocampal slices, the toolbox identified a widespread decrease in spatiotemporal activity evoked by the temporoammonic pathway. No significant differences were observed in the activity evoked by the perforant pathway. The VSDI toolbox permitted us to visualize and statistically compare activity across the spatiotemporal scope of the VSDI dataset. Sampling error was minimized because the representation of the data is standardized by the toolbox. Statistical comparisons were conducted quickly, across the spatiotemporal scope of the data, without a priori knowledge of the character of the responses or the likely differences between them.
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- Elliot B. Bourgeois
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Yu TY, Syeda F, Holmes AP, Osborne B, Dehghani H, Brain KL, Kirchhof P, Fabritz L. An automated system using spatial oversampling for optical mapping in murine atria. Development and validation with monophasic and transmembrane action potentials. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 115:340-8. [PMID: 25130572 PMCID: PMC4210664 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Accepted: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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We developed and validated a new optical mapping system for quantification of electrical activation and repolarisation in murine atria. The system makes use of a novel 2nd generation complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) camera with deliberate oversampling to allow both assessment of electrical activation with high spatial and temporal resolution (128 × 2048 pixels) and reliable assessment of atrial murine repolarisation using post-processing of signals. Optical recordings were taken from isolated, superfused and electrically stimulated murine left atria. The system reliably describes activation sequences, identifies areas of functional block, and allows quantification of conduction velocities and vectors. Furthermore, the system records murine atrial action potentials with comparable duration to both monophasic and transmembrane action potentials in murine atria.
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- Ting Yue Yu
- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK; Doctoral Training Centre for Physical Sciences of Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences (PSIBS), University of Birmingham, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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- Doctoral Training Centre for Physical Sciences of Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences (PSIBS), University of Birmingham, UK; School of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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- School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
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Klimas A, Entcheva E. Toward microendoscopy-inspired cardiac optogenetics in vivo: technical overview and perspective. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2014; 19:080701. [PMID: 25117076 PMCID: PMC4161000 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.19.8.080701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2014] [Accepted: 07/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The ability to perform precise, spatially localized actuation and measurements of electrical activity in the heart is crucial in understanding cardiac electrophysiology and devising new therapeutic solutions for control of cardiac arrhythmias. Current cardiac imaging techniques (i.e. optical mapping) employ voltage- or calcium-sensitive fluorescent dyes to visualize the electrical signal propagation through cardiac syncytium in vitro or in situ with very high-spatiotemporal resolution. The extension of optogenetics into the cardiac field, where cardiac tissue is genetically altered to express light-sensitive ion channels allowing electrical activity to be elicited or suppressed in a precise cell-specific way, has opened the possibility for all-optical interrogation of cardiac electrophysiology. In vivo application of cardiac optogenetics faces multiple challenges and necessitates suitable optical systems employing fiber optics to actuate and sense electrical signals. In this technical perspective, we present a compendium of clinically relevant access routes to different parts of the cardiac electrical conduction system based on currently employed catheter imaging systems and determine the quantitative size constraints for endoscopic cardiac optogenetics. We discuss the relevant technical advancements in microendoscopy, cardiac imaging, and optogenetics and outline the strategies for combining them to create a portable, miniaturized fiber-based system for all-optical interrogation of cardiac electrophysiology in vivo.
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- Aleksandra Klimas
- Stony Brook University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Stony Brook University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
- Stony Brook University, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
- Stony Brook University, Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
- Address all correspondence to: Emilia Entcheva, E-mail:
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Fenton FH, Gizzi A, Cherubini C, Pomella N, Filippi S. Role of temperature on nonlinear cardiac dynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 87:042717. [PMID: 23679459 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.042717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2012] [Revised: 12/19/2012] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Thermal effects affecting spatiotemporal behavior of cardiac tissue are discussed by relating temperature variations to proarrhythmic dynamics in the heart. By introducing a thermoelectric coupling in a minimal model of cardiac tissue, we are able to reproduce experimentally measured dynamics obtained simultaneously from epicardial and endocardial canine right ventricles at different temperatures. A quantitative description of emergent proarrhythmic properties of restitution, conduction velocity, and alternans regimes as a function of temperature is presented. Complex discordant alternans patterns that enhance tissue dispersion consisting of one wave front and three wave backs are described in both simulations and experiments. Possible implications for model generalization are finally discussed.
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- Flavio H Fenton
- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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Ronzhina M, Cmiel V, Janoušek O, Kolářová J, Nováková M, Babula P, Provazník I. Application of the optical method in experimental cardiology: action potential and intracellular calcium concentration measurement. Physiol Res 2012; 62:125-37. [PMID: 23234419 DOI: 10.33549/physiolres.932369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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It has been shown that, in addition to conventional contact electrode techniques, optical methods using fluorescent dyes can be successfully used for cardiac signal measurement. In this review, the physical and technical fundamentals of the method are described, as well as the properties of the most common systems for measuring action potentials and intracellular calcium concentration. Special attention is paid to summarizing limitations and trends in developing this method.
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- M Ronzhina
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Cardiac electrophysiological imaging systems scalable for high-throughput drug testing. Pflugers Arch 2012; 464:645-56. [PMID: 23053475 PMCID: PMC3513599 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-012-1149-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2012] [Revised: 08/22/2012] [Accepted: 08/24/2012] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Multi-parametric electrophysiological measurements using optical methods have become a highly valued standard in cardiac research. Most published optical mapping systems are expensive and complex. Although some applications demand high-cost components and complex designs, many can be tackled with simpler solutions. Here, we describe (1) a camera-based voltage and calcium imaging system using a single ‘economy’ electron-multiplying charge-coupled device camera and demonstrate the possibility of using a consumer camera for imaging calcium transients of the heart, and (2) a photodiode-based voltage and calcium high temporal resolution measurement system using single-element photodiodes and an optical fibre. High-throughput drug testing represents an application where system scalability is particularly attractive. Therefore, we tested our systems on tissue exposed to a well-characterized and clinically relevant calcium channel blocker, nifedipine, which has been used to treat angina and hypertension. As experimental models, we used the Langendorff-perfused whole-heart and thin ventricular tissue slices, a preparation gaining renewed interest by the cardiac research community. Using our simplified systems, we were able to monitor simultaneously the marked changes in the voltage and calcium transients that are responsible for the negative inotropic effect of the compound.
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Lee P, Yan P, Ewart P, Kohl P, Loew LM, Bollensdorff C. Simultaneous measurement and modulation of multiple physiological parameters in the isolated heart using optical techniques. Pflugers Arch 2012; 464:403-14. [PMID: 22886365 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-012-1135-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2012] [Revised: 06/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/26/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Whole-heart multi-parametric optical mapping has provided valuable insight into the interplay of electrophysiological parameters, and this technology will continue to thrive as dyes are improved and technical solutions for imaging become simpler and cheaper. Here, we show the advantage of using improved 2nd-generation voltage dyes, provide a simple solution to panoramic multi-parametric mapping, and illustrate the application of flash photolysis of caged compounds for studies in the whole heart. For proof of principle, we used the isolated rat whole-heart model. After characterising the blue and green isosbestic points of di-4-ANBDQBS and di-4-ANBDQPQ, respectively, two voltage and calcium mapping systems are described. With two newly custom-made multi-band optical filters, (1) di-4-ANBDQBS and fluo-4 and (2) di-4-ANBDQPQ and rhod-2 mapping are demonstrated. Furthermore, we demonstrate three-parameter mapping using di-4-ANBDQPQ, rhod-2 and NADH. Using off-the-shelf optics and the di-4-ANBDQPQ and rhod-2 combination, we demonstrate panoramic multi-parametric mapping, affording a 360° spatiotemporal record of activity. Finally, local optical perturbation of calcium dynamics in the whole heart is demonstrated using the caged compound, o-nitrophenyl ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid (NP-EGTA), with an ultraviolet light-emitting diode (LED). Calcium maps (heart loaded with di-4-ANBDQPQ and rhod-2) demonstrate successful NP-EGTA loading and local flash photolysis. All imaging systems were built using only a single camera. In conclusion, using novel 2nd-generation voltage dyes, we developed scalable techniques for multi-parametric optical mapping of the whole heart from one point of view and panoramically. In addition to these parameter imaging approaches, we show that it is possible to use caged compounds and ultraviolet LEDs to locally perturb electrophysiological parameters in the whole heart.
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- Peter Lee
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Cardiac optical mapping has proven to be a powerful technology for studying cardiovascular function and disease. The development and scientific impact of this methodology are well-documented. Because of its relevance in cardiac research, this imaging technology advances at a rapid pace. Here, we review technological and scientific developments during the past several years and look toward the future. First, we explore key components of a modern optical mapping set-up, focusing on: (1) new camera technologies; (2) powerful light-emitting-diodes (from ultraviolet to red) for illumination; (3) improved optical filter technology; (4) new synthetic and optogenetic fluorescent probes; (5) optical mapping with motion and contraction; (6) new multiparametric optical mapping techniques; and (7) photon scattering effects in thick tissue preparations. We then look at recent optical mapping studies in single cells, cardiomyocyte monolayers, atria, and whole hearts. Finally, we briefly look into the possible future roles of optical mapping in the development of regenerative cardiac research, cardiac cell therapies, and molecular genetic advances.
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- Todd J Herron
- Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800, USA
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Rodriguez M, Nygren A. Application of scale-space descriptors for the reliable detection of keypoints for image registration in optical mapping studies in whole heart preparations. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012; 2012:3171-3174. [PMID: 23366599 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2012.6346638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Data acquired using Optical Mapping (OM) studies are affected by motion artifacts due to the inherent contraction of the heart. Those artifacts can be reduced by registering the images obtained by the OM system or by the combination of approaches like physical restraint of the heart or ratiometry with image registration. Due to the lack of high contrast features most registration methods are not suitable for this application. This paper is focused on the utilization of scale space theory and local descriptors to enhance the detection of local features in OM images and to describe the movement of keypoints. This information can be used to determine a suitable set of transformations to perform the registration process.
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- M Rodriguez
- Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Calgary
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Scull JA, McSpadden LC, Himel HD, Badie N, Bursac N. Single-detector simultaneous optical mapping of V(m) and [Ca(2+)](i) in cardiac monolayers. Ann Biomed Eng 2011; 40:1006-17. [PMID: 22124794 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-011-0478-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2011] [Accepted: 11/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Simultaneous mapping of transmembrane voltage (V(m)) and intracellular Ca(2+) concentration (Ca(i)) has been used for studies of normal and abnormal impulse propagation in cardiac tissues. Existing dual mapping systems typically utilize one excitation and two emission bandwidths, requiring two photodetectors with precise pixel registration. In this study we describe a novel, single-detector mapping system that utilizes two excitation and one emission band for the simultaneous recording of action potentials and calcium transients in monolayers of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. Cells stained with the Ca(2+)-sensitive dye X-Rhod-1 and the voltage-sensitive dye Di-4-ANEPPS were illuminated by a programmable, multicolor LED matrix. Blue and green LED pulses were flashed 180° out of phase at a rate of 488.3 Hz using a custom-built dual bandpass excitation filter that transmitted blue (482 ± 6 nm) and green (577 ± 31 nm) light. A long-pass emission filter (>605 nm) and a 504-channel photodiode array were used to record combined signals from cardiomyocytes. Green excitation yielded Ca(i) transients without significant crosstalk from V(m). Crosstalk present in V(m) signals obtained with blue excitation was removed by subtracting an appropriately scaled version of the Ca(i) transient. This method was applied to study delay between onsets of action potentials and Ca(i) transients in anisotropic cardiac monolayers.
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- James A Scull
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Bourgeois EB, Bachtel AD, Huang J, Walcott GP, Rogers JM. Simultaneous optical mapping of transmembrane potential and wall motion in isolated, perfused whole hearts. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2011; 16:096020. [PMID: 21950934 PMCID: PMC3194792 DOI: 10.1117/1.3630115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Optical mapping of cardiac propagation has traditionally been hampered by motion artifact, chiefly due to changes in photodetector-to-tissue registration as the heart moves. We have developed an optical mapping technique to simultaneously record electrical waves and mechanical contraction in isolated hearts. This allows removal of motion artifact from transmembrane potential (V(m)) recordings without the use of electromechanical uncoupling agents and allows the interplay of electrical and mechanical events to be studied at the whole organ level. Hearts are stained with the voltage-sensitive dye di-4-ANEPPS and ring-shaped markers are attached to the epicardium. Fluorescence, elicited on alternate frames by 450 and 505 nm light-emitting diodes, is recorded at 700 frames∕ per second by a camera fitted with a 605 ± 25 nm emission filter. Marker positions are tracked in software. A signal, consisting of the temporally interlaced 450 and 505 nm fluorescence, is collected from the pixels enclosed by each moving ring. After deinterlacing, the 505 nm signal consists of V(m) with motion artifact, while the 450 nm signal is minimally voltage-sensitive and contains primarily artifacts. The ratio of the two signals estimates V(m). Deformation of the tissue enclosed by each set of 3 rings is quantified using homogeneous finite strain.
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- Elliot B Bourgeois
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
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