Key result
A modified 17-dimensional version of the TP06 cardiac cell model accurately predicts the complex dynamics, such as early afterdepolarisations, of the original 19-dimensional model.
Why the study?
The 19-dimensional TP06 cardiac muscle cell model needed reduction to satisfy conditions for analyzing its dynamics using bifurcation theory.
A modified, lower-dimensional cardiac cell model allows for rigorous bifurcation analysis while accurately predicting complex arrhythmogenic dynamics like early afterdepolarizations seen in the original model.
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Simplified 17D TP06 model may speed arrhythmia simulations; leaves open its role in clinical risk prediction or drug screening.
The 19-dimensional TP06 cardiac muscle cell model is reduced to a 17-dimensional version, which satisfies the required conditions for performing an analysis of its dynamics by means of bifurcation theory. The reformulated model is shown to be a good approximation of the original one. As a consequence, one can extract fairly precise predictions of the behaviour of the original model from the bifurcation analysis of the modified model. Thus, the findings of bifurcations linked to complex dynamics in the modified model - like early afterdepolarisations (EADs), which can be precursors to cardiac death - predicts the occurrence of the same dynamics in the original model. It is shown that bifurcations linked to EADs in the modified model accurately predicts EADs in the original model at the single cell level. Finally, these bifurcations are linked to cardiac death at the tissue level by example.
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Erhardt et al. (2021) studied Cardiac arrhythmia (Early afterdepolarisations). Modified 17-dimensional TP06 cardiac cell model vs. Original 19-dimensional TP06 model was evaluated on Accuracy of predictions of complex dynamics (e.g., early afterdepolarisations). A modified 17-dimensional version of the TP06 cardiac cell model accurately predicts the complex dynamics, such as early afterdepolarisations, of the original 19-dimensional model.
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