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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2018

Increased thin filament activation enhances alternans in human chronic atrial fibrillation.

Melanie A Zile, Natalia A Trayanova

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Article in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evidence for a role of adverse sarcomere signaling in atrial fibrillation induction.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology plus · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Melanie A ZileInstitute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland.
Natalia A TrayanovaInstitute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland.

Funding

Virtual Electrophysiology LaboratoryDP1HL123271 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI TRAYANOVA, NATALIA A. · 2013 to 2017
$4.0M
Exploration of Arrhythmogenic Triggers and Substrates in Heart FailureR01HL126802 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI EFIMOV, IGOR R, GORELIK, JULIA · 2016 to 2019
$2.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS DP1 HL123271NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL126802
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Action potential duration (APD) alternans (APD-ALT), defined as beat-to-beat oscillations in APD, has been proposed as an important clinical marker for chronic atrial fibrillation (cAF) risk when it occurs at pacing rates of 120-200 beats/min. Although the ionic mechanisms for occurrence of APD-ALT in human cAF at these clinically relevant rates have been investigated, little is known about the effects of myofilament protein kinetics on APD-ALT. Therefore, we used computer simulations of single cell function to explore whether remodeling in myofilament protein kinetics in human cAF alters the occurrence of APD-ALT and to uncover how these mechanisms are affected by sarcomere length and the degree of cAF-induced myofilament remodeling. Mechanistically based, bidirectionally coupled electromechanical models of human right and left atrial myocytes were constructed, incorporating both ionic and myofilament remodeling associated with cAF. By comparing results from our electromechanical model with those from the uncoupled ionic model, we found that intracellular Ca

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Action PotentialsCalcium SignalingHeart RateModels, CardiovascularAtrial FibrillationChronic DiseaseComputer SimulationExcitation Contraction CouplingHeart AtriaHumansKineticsMyocardial ContractionMyocytes, CardiacMyofibrilsSarcomeresTroponin CTroponin Caction potential duration alternansatrial fibrillationcomputer modelingmechanoelectric feedback

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PMID30141984
PMCPMC6297809

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