Title
Dofetilide effect on human atrial action potential under normal and atrial fibrillation conditions. In silico study
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Tobón C.
Ugarte J.P.
Saiz J.
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. Dofetilide is an antiarrhythmic drug for the treatment of chronic AF that specifically blocks the rapid component of the delayed rectifier potassium current IKr. Dofetilide prolongs the action potential duration and QT interval in a concentration-dependent fashion, therefore, the risk of QT prolongation is dose related. It is important to study the electrophysiological effects of dofetilide at different concentrations in human atrial cells. For this, we simulated the effects of dofetilide on human atrial cell and studied its effect on atrial action potential under normal conditions and during cAF. We developed a model of dofetilide effects on IKrand IKACh. Our results show that dofetilide blocks both currents in a fraction greater as the concentration increases, which results in an action potential duration lengthening. To our knowledge, this is the first work that has developed mathematical models of dofetilide effects on IKrand IKAChcurrents to study its effect on human atrial action potential.
Start page
38
End page
41
Volume
60
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistema cardiaco, Sistema cardiovascular Farmacología, Farmacia
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85018409745
ISSN of the container
16800737
ISBN of the container
978-981104085-6
Conference
IFMBE Proceedings
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