Key result
Isolated cardiomyocytes exhibit long-time correlations in beating phase dynamics, which a theoretical model relates to cellular regulation restoring average frequency after stochastic perturbations.
Long-time correlations extend beat-to-beat variability models in isolated cells; leaves open clinical relevance to arrhythmias.
Spontaneous contractions of cardiomyocytes are driven by calcium oscillations due to the activity of ionic calcium channels and pumps. The beating phase is related to the time-dependent deviation of the oscillations from their average frequency, due to noise and the resulting cellular response. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that, in addition to the short-time (1-2 Hz), beat-to-beat variability, there are long-time correlations (tens of minutes) in the beating phase dynamics of isolated cardiomyocytes. Our theoretical model relates these long-time correlations to cellular regulation that restores the frequency to its average, homeostatic value in response to stochastic perturbations.
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Cohen et al. (2020) studied Isolated cardiomyocytes. Isolated cardiomyocytes exhibit long-time correlations in beating phase dynamics, which a theoretical model relates to cellular regulation restoring average frequency after stochastic perturbations.
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