• Katsnel’son L B
• Solov’eva O E
• Sul’man T B
• Konovalov P V
• Markhasin V S

Biofizika

• Publish Date:
• ISSN: 0006-3029
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1044-54
• Medium: Print
• Language: Russian
• Citation (JAMA): Katsnel'son L B, Solov'eva O E, Sul'man T B, et al. Modeling of Mechanoelectric Coupling in Cardiomyocytes in Norm and Pathology. Biofizika ;51:1044-54

Abstract

We developed mathematical models of the electromechanical function of cardiomyocytes and the simplest mechanically heterogeneous myocardial systems, muscle duplexes. By means of these models we studied the contribution of mechanoelectric feedbacks to the contractile activity of the myocardium in norm and pathology. In particular, we simulated and clarified the effects of mechanical conditions on both the form and the duration of the action potential during contractions. From this standpoint different kinds of myocardium mechanical heterogeneity were analyzed. As we have established, the latter can play both a positive and a negative role, depending on the distribution of mechanical nonuniformity and the sequence of activation of heterogeneous myocardium system elements. By means of the same models, we studied the contribution of mechanical factors to the arrhythmogenicity in the case of the cardiomyocyte calcium overload caused by the attenuation of the sodium-potassium pump and outlined the ways for correcting the contractile function in these disturbances.

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