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Hoang-Trong Minh Tuan1, George S B Williams, Aristide C Chikando, Eric A Sobie, W Jonathan Lederer, M Saleet Jafri.
Abstract
A three dimensional model of calcium dynamics in the rat ventricular myocyte was developed to study the mechanism of calcium homeostasis and pathological calcium dynamics during calcium overload. The model contains 20,000 calcium release units (CRUs) each containing 49 ryanodine receptors. The model simulates calcium sparks with a realistic spontaneous calcium spark rate. It suggests that in addition to the calcium spark-based leak, there is an invisible calcium leak caused by the stochastic opening of a small number of ryanodine receptors in each CRU without triggering a calcium spark. The model also explores the mechanism of calcium wave propagation between release sites under the conditions of calcium overload.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22255381 PMCID: PMC3538105 DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091158
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc ISSN: 1557-170X