心肌细胞动作电位数学模型及其计算机仿真研究

恶性心律失常和室颤是心血管疾病中造成人类死亡的主要原因之一。建立在Hodgkin-Huxley方程基础上的心肌细胞动作电位数学模型由离子通道、泵及交换体电流组成,与细胞内外离子浓度、通道状况、神经递质和药物影响密切相关,可使细胞电生理和临床病理生理间建立确切的联系。基于这种模型的计算机仿真研究可以通过改变细胞内外环境,观察心肌组织乃至整个心脏电生理功能的变化,探讨和揭示心律失常或心源性猝死的机制。本文重点阐述了心肌细胞动作电位数学模型的构成及其计算机仿真研究的概况。

Mathematical Model of Cardiac Action Potential and Its Computer Simulations

Malignant arrhythmias and ventricular fibrillation are generally accepted as one of the major causes of death in cardiovascular diseases. Based on the H-H equations, the mathematical model of the cardiac cell action potential consists of the ion channels, pumps, exchangers and transporters that are closely connected with intra- and extra-cellular ion concentrations, the channel's conditions, nerve transductors and drugs. It can build the link between cell electrophysiology and clinical pathophysiology. By altering the cellular environments the computer simulating study on this kind of model can help us look into the electrophysiological changes of the cardiac tissue and even the whole heart and investigate the mechanisms of the cardiac arrhythmias as well. The components of the model and its computer simulating study are introduced in the paper.