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BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
卷 2015, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2015/197586
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CMMI-1341128]
- National Institutes of Health [R01HL089271]
- Heart Science Research Foundation
- Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
- NSF [OCI-1053575]
- Professor Blanca Rodriguez' (University of Oxford, UK) Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Sciences
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1341128] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Aims. Human action potentials in the Brugada syndrome have been characterized by delayed or even complete loss of dome formation, especially in the right ventricular epicardial layers. Such a repolarization pattern is believed to trigger phase-2 reentry (P2R); however, little is known about the conditions necessary for its initiation. This study aims to determine the specific mechanisms that facilitate P2R induction in Brugada-affected cardiac tissue in humans. Methods. Ionic models for Brugada syndrome in human epicardial cells were developed and used to study the induction of P2R in cables, sheets, and a three-dimensional model of the right ventricular free wall. Results. In one-dimensional cables, P2R can be induced by adjoining lost-dome and delayed-dome regions, as mediated by tissue excitability and transmembrane voltage profiles, and reduced coupling facilitates its induction. In two and three dimensions, sustained reentry can arise when three regions (delayed-dome, lost-dome, and normal epicardium) are present. Conclusions. Not only does P2R induction by Brugada syndrome require regions of action potential with delayed-dome and lost-dome, but in order to generate a sustained reentry from a triggered waveback multiple factors are necessary, including heterogeneity in action potential distribution, tissue coupling, direction of stimulation, the shape of the late plateau, the duration of lost-dome action potentials, and recovery of tissue excitability, which is predominantly modulated by tissue coupling.
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