Theoretical analysis of the adaptive contractile behaviour of a single cardiomyocyte cultured on elastic substrates with varying stiffness

Journal of Theoretical Biology
Philippe TracquiT Boudou

Abstract

In vivo, cardiomyocytes interact with surrounding extracellular matrix while performing periodically a contractile behaviour, which is the main determinant of heart performance. As extracellular substrates with easily tunable stiffness properties, polyacrylamide gels (PAGs) provide valuable flexible media for studying in vitro the dynamical behaviour of cardiomyocytes responding to stiffness variations of their surrounding environment. We propose in this paper an original mechano-chemical model of the cardiac cell contraction that sheds light on the adaptive response of cardiomyocytes evidenced recently in the experiments of Qin et al. [2007. Dynamical stress characterization and energy evaluation of single cardiac myocyte actuating on flexible substrate. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 360, 352-356]. The model links the amplitude of the extracellular PAGs strain fields to the spatio-temporal variation of the intracellular stresses in every part of the cell during the sarcomeres contraction-relaxation. In a continuum mechanics framework, we derived a unified description of the sarcomere-length dependence of intracellular active stress and of its control by anisotropic calcium diffusion and autocatalytic calcium release from the ...Continue Reading

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