Small and large animal models in cardiac contraction research: advantages and disadvantages

N Milani-Nejad, PML Janssen - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2014 - Elsevier
The mammalian heart is responsible for not only pum** blood throughout the body but
also adjusting this pum** activity quickly depending upon sudden changes in the …

Optical imaging of voltage and calcium in cardiac cells & tissues

TJ Herron, P Lee, J Jalife - Circulation research, 2012 - ahajournals.org
Cardiac optical map** has proven to be a powerful technology for studying cardiovascular
function and disease. The development and scientific impact of this methodology are well …

Simulation of the undiseased human cardiac ventricular action potential: model formulation and experimental validation

T O'Hara, L Virág, A Varró, Y Rudy - PLoS computational biology, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Cellular electrophysiology experiments, important for understanding cardiac arrhythmia
mechanisms, are usually performed with channels expressed in non myocytes, or with non …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for the generation of digital twins of cardiac electrophysiology from clinical 12-leads ECGs

K Gillette, MAF Gsell, AJ Prassl, E Karabelas… - Medical image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Cardiac digital twins (Cardiac Digital Twin (CDT) s) of human electrophysiology
(Electrophysiology (EP)) are digital replicas of patient hearts derived from clinical data that …

Cardiopatch platform enables maturation and scale-up of human pluripotent stem cell-derived engineered heart tissues

IY Shadrin, BW Allen, Y Qian, CP Jackman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Despite increased use of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
(hiPSC-CMs) for drug development and disease modeling studies, methods to generate …

Sudden cardiac death prediction and prevention: report from a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Heart Rhythm Society Workshop

GI Fishman, SS Chugh, JP DiMarco, CM Albert… - Circulation, 2010 - ahajournals.org
Despite the significant decline in coronary artery disease (CAD) mortality in the second half
of the 20th century, 1 sudden cardiac death (SCD) continues to claim 250 000 to 300 000 …

Optogenetic defibrillation terminates ventricular arrhythmia in mouse hearts and human simulations

T Bruegmann, PM Boyle, CC Vogt, TV Karathanos… - The Journal of clinical …, 2016 - jci.org
Ventricular arrhythmias are among the most severe complications of heart disease and can
result in sudden cardiac death. Patients at risk currently receive implantable defibrillators …

Translational neurocardiology: preclinical models and cardioneural integrative aspects

JL Ardell, MC Andresen, JA Armour… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Neuronal elements distributed throughout the cardiac nervous system, from the level of the
insular cortex to the intrinsic cardiac nervous system, are in constant communication with …

The physics of heart rhythm disorders

WJ Rappel - Physics reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The global burden caused by cardiovascular disease is substantial, with heart disease
representing the most common cause of death around the world. There remains a need to …

A computational model to predict the effects of class I anti-arrhythmic drugs on ventricular rhythms

JD Moreno, ZI Zhu, PC Yang, JR Bankston… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
A long-sought, and thus far elusive, goal has been to develop drugs to manage diseases of
excitability. One such disease that affects millions each year is cardiac arrhythmia, which …