TY  - JOUR
A1  - Frotscher, Ralf
A1  - Muanghong, Danita
A1  - Dursun, Gözde
A1  - Goßmann, Matthias
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Sample-specific adaption of an improved electro-mechanical model of in vitro cardiac tissue
JF  - Journal of Biomechanics
N2  - We present an electromechanically coupled computational model for the investigation of a thin cardiac tissue construct consisting of human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived atrial, ventricular and sinoatrial cardiomyocytes. The mechanical and electrophysiological parts of the finite element model, as well as their coupling are explained in detail. The model is implemented in the open source finite element code Code_Aster and is employed for the simulation of a thin circular membrane deflected by a monolayer of autonomously beating, circular, thin cardiac tissue. Two cardio-active drugs, S-Bay K8644 and veratridine, are applied in experiments and simulations and are investigated with respect to their chronotropic effects on the tissue. These results demonstrate the potential of coupled micro- and macroscopic electromechanical models of cardiac tissue to be adapted to experimental results at the cellular level. Further model improvements are discussed taking into account experimentally measurable quantities that can easily be extracted from the obtained experimental results. The goal is to estimate the potential to adapt the presented model to sample specific cell cultures.
KW  - hiPS cardiomyocytes
KW  - Homogenization
KW  - Hodgkin–Huxley models
KW  - Frequency adaption
KW  - Electromechanical modeling
KW  - Drug simulation
KW  - Computational biomechanics
KW  - Cardiac tissue
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.01.039
SN  - 0021-9290 (Print)
SN  - 1873-2380 (Online)
VL  - 49
IS  - 12
SP  - 2428
EP  - 2435
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -