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ArticleBiomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology2023

A cell-based framework for modeling cardiac mechanics.

Åshild Telle, James D Trotter, Xing Cai, Henrik Finsberg, Miroslav Kuchta, Joakim Sundnes, Samuel T Wall

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Article in Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Åshild TelleDepartment of Computational Physiology, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway. aashild@simula.no.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5399-4094
James D TrotterDepartment of High Performance Computing, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4498-020X
Xing CaiDepartment of High Performance Computing, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3706-4414
Henrik FinsbergDepartment of Computational Physiology, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3766-2393
Miroslav KuchtaDepartment of Computational Physiology, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3832-0988
Joakim SundnesDepartment of Computational Physiology, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1890-7722
Samuel T WallDepartment of Computational Physiology, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2487-703X
Simula Research Laboratory · NOUniversity of Oslo · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiomyocytes are the functional building blocks of the heart-yet most models developed to simulate cardiac mechanics do not represent the individual cells and their surrounding matrix. Instead, they work on a homogenized tissue level, assuming that cellular and subcellular structures and processes scale uniformly. Here we present a mathematical and numerical framework for exploring tissue-level cardiac mechanics on a microscale given an explicit three-dimensional geometrical representation of cells embedded in a matrix. We defined a mathematical model over such a geometry and parametrized our model using publicly available data from tissue stretching and shearing experiments. We then used the model to explore mechanical differences between the extracellular and the intracellular space. Through sensitivity analysis, we found the stiffness in the extracellular matrix to be most important for the intracellular stress values under contraction. Strain and stress values were observed to follow a normal-tangential pattern concentrated along the membrane, with substantial spatial variations both under contraction and stretching. We also examined how it scales to larger size simulations, considering multicellular domains. Our work extends existing continuum models, providing a new geometrical-based framework for exploring complex cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions.

Indexed as

Models, TheoreticalMyocytes, CardiacExtracellular MatrixCardiac mechanicsCardiomyocyte contractionCell geometriesIntracellular and extracellular mechanicsMicroscale modeling

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PMID36602715
PMCPMC10097778
OpenAlexW4313500717

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