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Arrhythmogenic Mechanism of the Enhanced Late Sodium Current in Human Ventricular Myocytes - A Simulation Study

  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Space Institute of Southern China
  • Peng Cheng Laboratory
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • University of Manchester

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Abstract

The enhancement of the late sodium current (INaL) has been demonstrated to contribute to the cardiac arrhythmias. However, its arrhythmogenic mechanism at the cellular and tissue level remains incompletely elucidated. In this study, the O'Hara-Rudy model of human ventricular cells was implemented for multi-level simulations. At the cellular level, the influences of the pathological enhanced INaL on cardiac action potential characteristics, ion currents, intracellular concentration homeostasis and action potential duration (APD) restitution properties were simulated and analyzed. At the tissue level, a heterogeneous one dimensional (1D) strand was constructed to find out the impact of enhanced INaL on APD dispersion and the vulnerable windows (VWs). The simulations revealed the role of augmenting INaL in prolonging the APD, steepening the APD restitution curves, increasing the heterogeneity of the tissue and widening the VWs. Our simulation data provides a detailed mechanistic insight into the pro-arrhythmic role of the enhanced INaL at both cellular and tissue levels.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 Computing in Cardiology, CinC 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781728169361
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2019
Event2019 Computing in Cardiology, CinC 2019 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 8 Sep 201911 Sep 2019

Publication series

NameComputing in Cardiology
Volume2019-September
ISSN (Print)2325-8861
ISSN (Electronic)2325-887X

Conference

Conference2019 Computing in Cardiology, CinC 2019
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period8/09/1911/09/19

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