Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford
This a model from the article: Mathematical models of the electrical action potential of Purkinje fibre cells. Philip Stewart, Oleg V. Aslanidi, Denis Noble, Penelope J. Noble, Mark R. Boyett and Henggui Zhang. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 13 June 2009 vol. 367 no. 1896 2225-2255 doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0283 , Abstract: Early development of ionic models for cardiac myocytes, from the pioneering modification of the Hodgkin–Huxley giant squid axon model by Noble to the iconic DiFrancesco–Noble model integrating voltage-gated ionic currents, ion pumps and exchangers, Ca2+ sequestration and Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release, provided a general description for a mammalian Purkinje fibre (PF) and the framework for modern cardiac models. In the past two decades, development has focused on tissue-specific models with an emphasis on the sino-atrial (SA) node, atria and ventricles, while the PFs have largely been neglected. However, achieving the ultimate goal of creating a virtual human heart will require detailed models of all distinctive regions of the cardiac conduction system, including the PFs, which play an important role in conducting cardiac excitation and ensuring the synchronized timing and sequencing of ventricular contraction. In this paper, we present details of our newly developed model for the human PF cell including validation against experimental data. Ionic mechanisms underlying the heterogeneity between the PF and ventricular action potentials in humans and other species are analysed. The newly developed PF cell model adds a new member to the family of human cardiac cell models developed previously for the SA node, atrial and ventricular cells, which can be incorporated into an anatomical model of the human heart with details of its electrophysiological heterogeneity and anatomical complexity. This model was taken from the CellML repository and automatically converted to SBML. The original model was: CellMLdetails The original CellML model was created by: Penny Noble penny.noble@dpag.ox.ac.uk The University of Oxford This model originates from BioModels Database: A Database of Annotated Published Models (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/). It is copyright (c) 2005-2011 The BioModels.net Team. To the extent possible under law, all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this encoded model have been dedicated to the public domain worldwide. Please refer to CC0 Public Domain Dedication for more information. In summary, you are entitled to use this encoded model in absolutely any manner you deem suitable, verbatim, or with modification, alone or embedded it in a larger context, redistribute it, commercially or not, in a restricted way or not. . To cite BioModels Database, please use: Li C, Donizelli M, Rodriguez N, Dharuri H, Endler L, Chelliah V, Li L, He E, Henry A, Stefan MI, Snoep JL, Hucka M, Le Novère N, Laibe C (2010) BioModels Database: An enhanced, curated and annotated resource for published quantitative kinetic models. BMC Syst Biol., 4:92.