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GuidelineCirculation2008

Systems approach to understanding electromechanical activity in the human heart: a national heart, lung, and blood institute workshop summary.

Yoram Rudy, Michael J Ackerman, Donald M Bers, Colleen E Clancy, Steven R Houser, Barry London, Andrew D McCulloch, Dennis A Przywara, Randall L Rasmusson, R John Solaro and 5 more

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Guideline in Circulation, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Novel Electroactive Therapeutic Platforms for Cardiac Arrhythmia Management.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  9. Closing the 'phenotype gap' in precision medicine: improving what we measure to understand complex disease mechanisms.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2019
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  17. Ion Channels in the Heart.Comprehensive Physiology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoram RudyCardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center, The Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor, Washington University, Campus Box 1097, Whitaker Hall Room 290B, One Brookings Dr, St Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA. rudy@wustl.edu
Michael J Ackerman
Donald M Bers
Colleen E Clancy
Steven R Houser
Barry London
Andrew D McCulloch
Dennis A Przywara
Randall L Rasmusson
R John Solaro
Natalia A Trayanova
David R Van Wagoner
András Varró
James N Weiss
David A Lathrop
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Troponin Mudulation in Heart FailureR01HL064035 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI SOLARO, R JOHN, WOLSKA, BEATA M. · 2000 to 2013
$4.7M
Ca and Na Transport in Heart FailureR01HL064724 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI BERS, DONALD M · 2000 to 2008
$4.4M
Defibrillation Mechanisms in Infarcted HeartsR01HL082729 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI TRAYANOVA, NATALIA A. · 2007 to 2010
$2.1M
Pharmacogenomics and antiarrhythmic therapy: An in silico investigationR01HL085592 · NHLBI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI CLANCY, COLLEEN E · 2007 to 2011
$1.8M
CARDIAC TISSUE STRUCTURE IN THE DEFIBRILLATION PROCESSR01HL063195 · NHLBI · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI TRAYANOVA, NATALIA A. · 1999 to 2008
$1.4M
Medical Research Council G9900432NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL063195NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL064035NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL082729NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL085592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) convened a workshop of cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists, cell biophysicists, and computational modelers on August 20 and 21, 2007, in Washington, DC, to advise the NHLBI on new research directions needed to develop integrative approaches to elucidate human cardiac function. The workshop strove to identify limitations in the use of data from nonhuman animal species for elucidation of human electromechanical function/activity and to identify what specific information on ion channel kinetics, calcium handling, and dynamic changes in the intracellular/extracellular milieu is needed from human cardiac tissues to develop more robust computational models of human cardiac electromechanical activity. This article summarizes the workshop discussions and recommendations on the following topics: (1) limitations of animal models and differences from human electrophysiology, (2) modeling ion channel structure/function in the context of whole-cell electrophysiology, (3) excitation-contraction coupling and regulatory pathways, (4) whole-heart simulations of human electromechanical activity, and (5) what human data are currently needed and how to obtain them. The recommendations can be found on the NHLBI Web site at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/workshops/electro.htm.

Indexed as

Models, CardiovascularAnimalsCardiac ElectrophysiologyCardiovascular DiseasesComputer SimulationHeartHumansIon ChannelsModels, AnimalMyocardial ContractionNational Institutes of Health (U.S.)United StatesIon Channels

Identifiers

PMID18779456
PMCPMC2908516
OpenAlexW2092248363

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