Myokit: a simple interface to cardiac cellular electrophysiology

M Clerx, P Collins, E De Lange, PGA Volders - Progress in biophysics and …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Myokit is a new powerful and versatile software tool for modeling and simulation of cardiac
cellular electrophysiology. Myokit consists of an easy-to-read modeling language, a …

3D virtual human atria: A computational platform for studying clinical atrial fibrillation

OV Aslanidi, MA Colman, J Stott, H Dobrzynski… - Progress in biophysics …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Despite a vast amount of experimental and clinical data on the underlying ionic, cellular and
tissue substrates, the mechanisms of common atrial arrhythmias (such as atrial fibrillation …

How the Hodgkin–Huxley equations inspired the cardiac physiome project

D Noble, A Garny, PJ Noble - The Journal of physiology, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Early modelling of cardiac cells (1960–1980) was based on extensions of the Hodgkin–
Huxley nerve axon equations with additional channels incorporated, but after 1980 it …

Pro‐arrhythmogenic effects of atrial fibrillation‐induced electrical remodelling: insights from the three‐dimensional virtual human atria

MA Colman, OV Aslanidi, S Kharche… - The Journal of …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Key points• Previous studies have shown that atrial electrical properties are altered
(remodelled) by atrial fibrillation (AF) and that the recurrence of AF is high following …

Application of micro-computed tomography with iodine staining to cardiac imaging, segmentation, and computational model development

OV Aslanidi, T Nikolaidou, J Zhao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) has been widely used to generate high-resolution 3-
D tissue images from small animals nondestructively, especially for mineralized skeletal …

Four ways to fit an ion channel model

M Clerx, KA Beattie, DJ Gavaghan, GR Mirams - Biophysical Journal, 2019‏ - cell.com
Mathematical models of ionic currents are used to study the electrophysiology of the heart,
brain, gut, and several other organs. Increasingly, these models are being used predictively …

Application of cardiac electrophysiology simulations to pro‐arrhythmic safety testing

GR Mirams, MR Davies, Y Cui, P Kohl… - British journal of …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Concerns over cardiac side effects are the largest single cause of compound attrition during
pharmaceutical drug development. For a number of years, biophysically detailed …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in using mechanistic cardiac modelling for drug safety evaluation

MR Davies, K Wang, GR Mirams, A Caruso, D Noble… - Drug discovery today, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Modelling and simulation can streamline decision making in drug safety
testing.•Computational cardiac electrophysiology is a mature technology with a long …

Species-dependent mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmia: a cellular focus

AG Edwards, WE Louch - Clinical Medicine Insights …, 2017‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Although ventricular arrhythmia remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality,
available antiarrhythmic drugs have limited efficacy. Disappointing progress in the …

High-throughput screening of drug-binding dynamics to HERG improves early drug safety assessment

GY Di Veroli, MR Davies, H Zhang… - American Journal …, 2013‏ - journals.physiology.org
The use of computational models to predict drug-induced changes in the action potential
(AP) is a promising approach to reduce drug safety attrition but requires a better …