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ArticlePloS one2018

Early afterdepolarizations in cardiac action potentials as mixed mode oscillations due to a folded node singularity.

Philipp Kügler, André H Erhardt, M A K Bulelzai

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Philipp KüglerInstitute of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1041-9265
André H ErhardtDepartment of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-4389-8554
M A K BulelzaiDepartmeny of Basic Sciences and Related Studies, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah, Pakistan.

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Abstract

Early afterdepolarizations (EADs) are pathological voltage oscillations during the repolarization phase of cardiac action potentials. They are considered as potential precursors to cardiac arrhythmias and have recently gained much attention in the context of preclinical drug safety testing under the Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) paradigm. From the viewpoint of multiple time scales theory, the onset of EADs has previously been studied by means of mathematical action potential models with one slow ion channel gating variable. In this article, we for the first time associate EADs with mixed mode oscillations in dynamical systems with two slow gating variables and present a folded node singularity of the slow flow as a novel mechanism for EADs genesis. We derive regions of the pharmacology parameter space in which EADs occur using both the folded node analysis and a full system bifurcation analysis, and we suggest the normal distance to the boundary of the EADs region as a mechanism-based risk metric to computationally estimate a drug's proarrhythmic liability.

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Models, CardiovascularAction PotentialsAnimalsArrhythmias, CardiacCalciumComputer SimulationHeart Conduction SystemHeart VentriclesHumansModels, TheoreticalMyocytes, CardiacNeuromuscular Depolarizing AgentsCalciumNeuromuscular Depolarizing Agents

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PMID30596698
PMCPMC6312222

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