An in silico Study of Cardiac hiPSC Electronic Maturation by Dynamic Clamp

Sofia Botti*, Chiara Bartolucci, Rolf Krause, Luca F. Pavarino, Stefano Severi

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Abstract

Regenerative cardiology recently advanced in patient–specific medicine by employing somatic cells to derive pluripotent stem cells and differentiate them into cardiomyocytes. Resulting populations present an immature phenotype; the Dynamic Clamp technique is a popular experimental manipulation to induce electronic maturation towards an adult phenotype. In this work, we present a fully virtual framework to study this Dynamic Clamp technique, based on the injection of the inward-rectifier potassium current into the myocyte, taking into account six different current formulations. We investigate the effects of the current injection on the action potential morphology and on three specific biomarkers for different current percentages, and we compare resulting morphologies with the standard transmembrane potential profile of a human adult cardiomyocyte. The results of this quantitative analysis suggest that atrial–like potassium current formulations allow the cell to reach action potential features comparable with the ones of mature cells, preventing the cell to show a non physiological morphology.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationFunctional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart - 12th International Conference, FIMH 2023, Proceedings
EditorsOlivier Bernard, Patrick Clarysse, Nicolas Duchateau, Jacques Ohayon, Magalie Viallon
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages175-183
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783031353017
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
EventFunctional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart - 12th International Conference, FIMH 2023, Proceedings - Lyon, France
Duration: Jun 19 2023Jun 22 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13958 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceFunctional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart - 12th International Conference, FIMH 2023, Proceedings
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period06/19/2306/22/23

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

  • Cardiac action potential morphology
  • hiPSC–CMs
  • Virtual dynamic clamp

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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