Optical imaging of voltage and calcium in cardiac cells & tissues

TJ Herron, P Lee, J Jalife - Circulation research, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
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 …

Processing and analysis of cardiac optical map** data obtained with potentiometric dyes

JI Laughner, FS Ng, MS Sulkin… - American Journal of …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Optical map** has become an increasingly important tool to study cardiac
electrophysiology in the past 20 years. Multiple methods are used to process and analyze …

[HTML][HTML] In-silico human electro-mechanical ventricular modelling and simulation for drug-induced pro-arrhythmia and inotropic risk assessment

F Margara, ZJ Wang, F Levrero-Florencio… - Progress in Biophysics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human-based computational modelling and simulation are powerful tools to accelerate the
mechanistic understanding of cardiac patho-physiology, and to develop and evaluate …

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 …

Conduction remodeling in human end-stage nonischemic left ventricular cardiomyopathy

AV Glukhov, VV Fedorov, PW Kalish, VK Ravikumar… - Circulation, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Several arrhythmogenic mechanisms have been inferred from animal heart
failure models. However, the translation of these hypotheses is difficult because of the lack …

[HTML][HTML] Universal ventricular coordinates: A generic framework for describing position within the heart and transferring data

J Bayer, AJ Prassl, A Pashaei, JF Gomez… - Medical image …, 2018 - Elsevier
Being able to map a particular set of cardiac ventricles to a generic topologically equivalent
representation has many applications, including facilitating comparison of different hearts …

Human organotypic cultured cardiac slices: new platform for high throughput preclinical human trials

C Kang, Y Qiao, G Li, K Baechle, P Camelliti… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Translation of novel therapies from bench to bedside is hampered by profound disparities
between animal and human genetics and physiology. The ability to test for efficacy and …

Remodeling of calcium handling in human heart failure

Q Lou, A Janardhan, IR Efimov - Calcium Signaling, 2012 - Springer
Heart failure (HF) is an increasing public health problem accelerated by a rapidly aging
global population. Despite considerable progress in managing the disease, the …

Local β-adrenergic stimulation overcomes source-sink mismatch to generate focal arrhythmia

RC Myles, L Wang, C Kang, DM Bers… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: β-Adrenergic receptor stimulation produces sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+
overload and delayed afterdepolarizations in isolated ventricular myocytes. How delayed …

Targeting cardiomyocyte Ca2 homeostasis in heart failure

AT Roe, M Frisk, WE Louch - Current pharmaceutical design, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Improved treatments for heart failure patients will require the development of novel
therapeutic strategies that target basal disease mechanisms. Disrupted cardiomyocyte Ca2+ …