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Title: | Cardiac cells stimulated with an axial current-like waveform reproduce electrophysiological properties of tissue fibers |
Authors: | Monasterio, Violeta
Pueyo, Esther Carro, Jesús Rodríguez-Matas, José Félix |
Keywords: | Cardiac electrophysiological models; Multi-scale simulations; Stimulus current |
Issue Date: | Nov-2022 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Description: | Background and objective: In silico electrophysiological models are generally validated by comparing sim- ulated results with experimental data. When dealing with single-cell and tissue scales simultaneously, as occurs frequently during model development and calibration, the effects of inter-cellular coupling should be considered to ensure the trustworthiness of model predictions. The hypothesis of this paper is that the cell-tissue mismatch can be reduced by incorporating the effects of conduction into the single-cell stimulation current. Methods: Five different stimulation waveforms were applied to the human ven- tricular O’Hara-Rudy cell model. The waveforms included the commonly used monophasic and biphasic (symmetric and asymmetric) pulses, a triangular waveform and a newly proposed asymmetric waveform (stimulation A) that resembles the transmembrane current associated with AP conduction in tissue. A comparison between single-cell and fiber simulated results was established by computing the relative difference between the values of AP-derived properties at different scales, and by evaluating the differ- ences in the contributions of ionic conductances to each evaluated property. As a proof of the benefit, we investigated multi-scale differences in the simulation of the effects induced by dofetilide, a selective I Kr blocker with high torsadogenic risk, on ventricular repolarization at different pacing rates. Results: Out of the five tested stimulation waveforms, stimulation A produced the closest correspondence between cell and tissue simulations in terms of AP properties at steady-state and under dynamic pacing and of ionic contributors to those AP properties. Also, stimulation A reproduced the effects of dofetilide better than the other alternative waveforms, mirroring the ’beat-skipping’ behavior observed at fast pacing rates in experiments with human tissue. Conclusions: The proposed stimulation current waveform accounts for inter-cellular coupling effects by mimicking cell excitation during AP conduction. The proposed wave- form improves the correspondence between simulation scales, which could improve the trustworthiness of single-cell simulations without adding computational cost |
URI: | https://repositorio.usj.es/handle/123456789/887 |
ISSN: | 0169-2607 |
Appears in Collections: | Artículos de revistas |
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