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Modeling cardiomyocyte mechanics and autoregulation of contractility by mechano-chemo-transduction feedback.


ABSTRACT: The heart pumps blood into circulation against vascular resistance and actively regulates the contractile force to compensate for mechanical load changes. Our experimental data show that cardiomyocytes have a mechano-chemo-transduction (MCT) mechanism that increases intracellular Ca2+ transient to enhance contractility in response to increased mechanical load. This study advances the cardiac excitation- Ca2+ signaling-contraction (E-C) coupling model on conceptual and technical fronts. First, we developed analytical and computational models to perform 3-dimensional mechanical analysis of cardiomyocytes contracting in a viscoelastic medium under mechanical load. Next, we proposed an MCT feedback loop in the E-C coupling dynamic system to shift the feedforward paradigm of cardiac E-C coupling to an autoregulation model. Our combined modeling and experimental studies reveal that MCT enables autoregulation of E-C coupling and contractility in single cardiomyocytes, which underlies the heart's intrinsic autoregulation in compensatory response to load changes in order to maintain the stroke volume and cardiac output.

SUBMITTER: Kazemi-Lari MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9289640 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Modeling cardiomyocyte mechanics and autoregulation of contractility by mechano-chemo-transduction feedback.

Kazemi-Lari Mohammad A MA   Shimkunas Rafael R   Jian Zhong Z   Hegyi Bence B   Izu Leighton L   Shaw John A JA   Wineman Alan S AS   Chen-Izu Ye Y  

iScience 20220626 7


The heart pumps blood into circulation against vascular resistance and actively regulates the contractile force to compensate for mechanical load changes. Our experimental data show that cardiomyocytes have a mechano-chemo-transduction (MCT) mechanism that increases intracellular Ca 2 + transient to enhance contractility in response to increased mechanical load. This study advances the cardiac excitation- Ca 2 + signaling-contraction (E-C) coupling model on conceptual and technical front  ...[more]

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