Integrating multi-scale data to create a virtual physiological mouse heart

Interface Focus

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Land, Sander ^a,b   Niederer, Steven A ^b   Louch, William E ^c,d   Sejersted, Ole M ^c,d   Smith, Nicolas P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cardiac multi scale model; Genetic knockout studies; Heterogeneous length dependent activation; Mouse modelling; Parameter sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875480113     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0076     Document Type: Article

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