From in vivo plasma composition to in vitro cardiac electrophysiology and in silico virtual heart: The extracellular calcium enigma

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1896, 2009, Pages 2203-2223

  Severi, Stefano ^a   Corsi, Cristiana ^a   Cerbai, Elisabetta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac models; Extracellular calcium; Virtual physiological human

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ATRIAL MODELS; CARDIAC ACTION POTENTIAL; CARDIAC CELL MODEL; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC MODEL; CARDIAC MODELS; CARDIOMYOCYTES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTRACELLULAR; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; EXTRACELLULAR SOLUTIONS; IN-SILICO; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LITERATURE DATA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; SIMULATION RESULT; VIRTUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL HUMAN;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CALCIUM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS;

EID: 67650898591     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0032     Document Type: Article

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