A Simplified Local Control Model of Calcium-Induced Calcium Release in Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes

Autor: Raimond L. Winslow, Linmiao Xu, Robert Hinch, Joseph L. Greenstein, Antti J. Tanskanen
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Biophysical Journal. 87(6):3723-3736
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.049973
Popis: Calcium (Ca2+)-induced Ca2+ release (CICR) in cardiac myocytes exhibits high gain and is graded. These properties result from local control of Ca2+ release. Existing local control models of Ca2+ release in which interactions between L-Type Ca2+ channels (LCCs) and ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ release channels (RyRs) are simulated stochastically are able to reconstruct these properties, but only at high computational cost. Here we present a general analytical approach for deriving simplified models of local control of CICR, consisting of low-dimensional systems of coupled ordinary differential equations, from these more complex local control models in which LCC-RyR interactions are simulated stochastically. The resulting model, referred to as the coupled LCC-RyR gating model, successfully reproduces a range of experimental data, including L-Type Ca2+ current in response to voltage-clamp stimuli, inactivation of LCC current with and without Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, voltage-dependence of excitation-contraction coupling gain, graded release, and the force-frequency relationship. The model does so with low computational cost.
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