PMID: 7538801Mar 1, 1995Paper

Simulation of myocardial action potentials of various cell types in relation to neural parameters

Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical Engineering
I WeissM Schaldach

Abstract

Action potentials of various myocardial cell types were simulated in a computer model based on current knowledge of the electrical properties of ionic channels and pumps in the ventricular cell membrane and the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The transport mechanisms of sodium, potassium, calcium and chlorine ions through the cell membrane are described mathematically, as is the exchange of calcium between the myoplasm and sarcoplasmic reticulum. Ten ionic channels and three pumps of the cell membrane are taken into account, while three channels and one pump of the sarcoplasmic reticulum are considered in the computations. For the first time, the transient outward potassium current IK,to was simulated, the effect of which on the early repolarisation phase of the action potential was reproducible in the model. Calcium buffers in the myoplasm and the sarcoplasmic reticulum are also considered. From the resulting ionic currents through the channels and pumps, the membrane potential is computed using an equivalent circuit diagram of the cell membrane. In particular the influence of neural activity on channel conductance and the probability of channel patency were taken into account. By means of this model, different shapes of ventricular a...Continue Reading

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