用低通滤波方法终止心脏组织中的螺旋波和时空混沌

通过让心肌细胞钠离子通道的触发门变量延迟打开, 使介质具有激发延迟能力, 介质延迟激发时间随控制电压和刺激频率增加而增加, 当控制电压超过一个阈值时, 延迟激发介质具有低通滤波作用:低频波可以连续通过, 而高频波不能连续通过. 本文用Luo-Rudy相I模型研究了介质延迟激发对螺旋波和时空混沌的影响, 数值模拟结果表明: 当控制电压超过阈值时, 介质的延迟激发可有效消除螺旋波和时空混沌; 从小逐渐增大控制电压, 在钙最大电导率较小情况下, 延迟激发会导致介质激发性降低, 使螺旋波漫游幅度增大, 直至传导障碍导致螺旋波消失; 当钙最大电导率较大时, 延迟激发会导致螺旋波失稳变弱, 这样当控制电压增加到一定值时, 时空混沌可以演化成漫游螺旋波, 当控制参数被适当选取时, 观察到漫游幅度大的螺旋波漫游出系统边界消失现象, 继续增大控制电压将导致时空混沌直接消失.     

离散可激发介质激发性降低的几种起因

采用简单的可激发介质元胞自动机模型,通过在均匀介质中引入死亡细胞、疲劳细胞以及让元胞的激发阈值作周期变化使螺旋波漫游.通过监测元胞的激发比率,发现不同原因导致的螺旋波漫游有一个共同的特点：螺旋波漫游情况下的元胞的激发比率较螺旋波不漫游情况下的元胞激发比率减小许多,表明介质的激发性降低与死亡细胞、疲劳细胞的数量以及元胞的激发阈值作周期变化有关;研究结果还表明：介质激发性的降低始终伴随螺旋波频率的减小.这些结果对心脏病的预防与治疗可能会提供有益的帮助. 关键词： 元胞自动机 可激发介质 螺旋波 漫游     

无扩散功能的缺陷对螺旋波动力学行为的影响

采用Br 模型,在二维激发介质中引入无扩散功能的缺陷,研究了均匀分布的缺陷对螺旋波动力学行为的影响.研究发现,缺陷导致介质的激发性降低、波传播速度减少,在一定数量的缺陷均匀分布下,缺陷可以使原来稳定的螺旋波发生漫游或破碎,缺陷使原来不稳定的螺旋波稳定或漫游,首次在激发介质中观察到螺旋波因Doppler效应破碎形成小螺旋波和时空混沌共存现象.对产生这些现象的物理机理做了简要的讨论. 关键词： 激发介质 螺旋波 缺陷     

通过抑制波头旋转消除心脏中的螺旋波和时空混沌

本文采用Luo-Rudy相I模型研究如何通过调控心肌细胞钠电流变化来控制心脏中的螺旋波和时空混沌,提出了这样的钠电流调控方案:当细胞将被激发时启动钠电流调节,若由模型方程得到的钠电流的绝对值小于钠电流控制阈值的绝对值,就让钠电流等于钠电流控制阈值,其他情况下则限制钠电流的绝对值不能高于一个给定的最大值;当膜电位上升超过-5 mV时,让钠电流自然演化.这种调节钠电流的方式保证了所有细胞几乎具有相同的钠电流幅值,从而使所有细胞具有相同的激发性,数值模拟结果表明,只要钠电流控制阈值达到一定临界值,就可以有效抑制螺旋波波头的旋转,导致螺旋波运动出系统边界而消失,以及时空混沌演化为螺旋波后消失,如果钠电流控制阈值足够大,螺旋波和时空混沌还可通过传导障碍而消失.这些结果能够为抗心律失常治疗提供新的思路.     

The inverse excitation-induced abnormal spiral wave

The effects of a local constant forcing on spiral waves in two-dimensional excitable media described by Bär model are investigated. A constant external forcing is imposed on the core of spiral wave, leading to parameter variability of a medium. It is found that the forcing can significantly alter the shape and rotation period of spiral wave when the values of related parameters are properly chosen. The change of wave structure is attributed to the transition from normal excitation to inverse excitation in the forced medium. An abnormal spiral wave with a very thick spiral arm has been observed. The physical mechanism underlying these phenomena is theoretically analyzed.     

Exploring the role of inhibitory coupling in duplex networks

The electrical coupling of myocytes and fibroblasts can play a role in inhibiting electrical impluse propagation in cardiac muscle. To understand the function of fibroblast–myocyte coupling in the aging heart, the spiral-wave dynamics in the duplex networks with inhibitory coupling is numerically investigated by the Br–Eiswirth model. The numerical results show that the inhibitory coupling can change the wave amplitude, excited phase duration and excitability of the system. When the related parameters are properly chosen, the inhibitory coupling can induce local abnormal oscillation in the system and the Eckhaus instability of the spiral wave. For the dense inhibitory network, the maximal decrement(maximal increment) in the excited phase duration can reach 24.3%(13.4%), whereas the maximal decrement in wave amplitude approaches 28.1%. Upon increasing the inhibitory coupling strength, the system excitability is reduced and even completely suppressed when the interval between grid points in the inhibitory network is small enough. Moreover, the inhibitory coupling can lead to richer phase transition scenarios of the system, such as the transition from a stable spiral wave to turbulence and the transition from a meandering spiral wave to a planar wave. In addition, the self-sustaining planar wave, the unique meandering of spiral wave and inward spiral wave are observed. The physical mechanisms behind the phenomena are analyzed.     

离散可激发介质中早期后去极化对螺旋波影响的数值研究

通过考虑某些不应态也可以被激发,在离散可激发介质Greenberg-Hasting模型中引入早期后去极化行为,研究了早期后去极化对螺旋波的影响.数值结果表明:在适当选择参数下,早期后去极化对螺旋波有很大影响,这些影响包括使螺旋波漫游、漂移和破碎,导致螺旋波波纹被扭曲和波臂粗细交替变化,以及导致螺旋波的周期在两个值之间交替变化,产生从稳定螺旋波到呼吸螺旋波和反螺旋波的相变等.当不应态的激发阈值很高时,早期后去极化对螺旋波没有影响.对发生上述现象作了简要的讨论. 关键词： 离散可激发介质 螺旋波 早期后去极化     

High-frequency instability of wave fronts

Experimental evidence is presented that a lateral instability of a wave front, as described earlier in a chemically active medium with the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction with decreased excitability, can also occur in a medium with any degree of excitability provided that a high-frequency wave train travels through the medium. The interaction of chemical waves with the boundary of the medium can result in the appearance of wave breaks and spiral waves.     

Light induced annihilation and shift of spiral waves

The light-induced collapse of a pair of spiral waves was studied in a chemically active medium based on the photosensitive Ru(bpy)(3)-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Spiral waves annihilate only if the light intensity is increased in proper phase relative to the spiral waves' rotation. Otherwise, the distance between spiral wave cores increases and the pair survives. Computer simulations reveal the mechanism which forces the spiral waves to collide and annihilate. It is based on the shift of a single spiral wave upon an instantaneous decrease of excitability of the medium. (c) 1996 American Institute of Physics.     

螺旋波动力学性质的元胞自动机有向小世界网络研究

以Greenberg-Hastings激发介质元胞自动机模型为基础,研究了有向小世界网络中重新连接概率p对螺旋波动力学行为的影响.对于在规则网络下的稳定螺旋波,施加有向小世界网络后发现:当p值较小时,原本稳定的螺旋波仍保持其稳定性.随着p的增大,先后观察到螺旋波持续漫游、螺旋波断裂以及螺旋波消失等现象.通过监测系统的激发比率,发现以上现象的产生源于介质激发性随p的增大而降低.同时还发现元胞周期的变化也与p有关. 关键词： 元胞自动机 螺旋波 激发介质 有向小世界网络     

多可激性障碍下的螺旋波动力学

在许多实际可激系统中局部不均匀是广泛存在的, 它们是螺旋波形成以及动力学行为改变的重要因素. 本文研究了可激性障碍对螺旋波动力学行为的影响. 研究表明, 在障碍区域内可激性参数大于区域外情况下障碍会对其附近的螺旋波波头有吸引作用, 多局部障碍共存时吸引行为不仅依赖障碍分布, 而且依赖障碍的大小以及区域内可激性参数的具体取值. 通过抑制变量小值区域的变化分析了这些行为发生的原因. 在障碍区域内可激性参数小于区域外情况下障碍对其近邻的螺旋波波头有排斥作用, 排斥后波头的运动依赖初始螺旋波是刚性旋转的还是漫游的. 多局部障碍共存时排斥作用对螺旋波动力学行为的改变依赖障碍的分布、大小与区域内可激性参数的具体取值以及初始螺旋波的类型. 关键词： 螺旋波 时空混沌 可激性障碍     

激发介质相对不应态对螺旋波动力学行为的影响

采用元胞自动机模型研究激发介质相对不应态对螺旋波动力学行为的影响。数值模拟表明：元胞激发阈值存在一临界区间,该区间的螺旋波周期会突然增加,并存在一最大周期,在合适的系统尺寸和状态数下,螺旋波周期不再受相对不应态的影响而只取决于系统的激发阈值;相对不应态导致螺旋波“Z”型漫游、小范围无规律漫游、花瓣状漫游、锯齿状漫游、风车状漫游等复杂的波头运动。观察到稳定螺旋波、漫游螺旋波和螺旋波消失,并对产生这些现象的机制作简要的解释。     

Wave front interaction model of stabilized propagating wave segments

A wave front interaction model is developed to describe the relationship between excitability and the size and shape of stabilized wave segments in a broad class of weakly excitable media. These wave segments of finite size are unstable but can be stabilized by feedback to the medium excitability; they define a separatrix between spiral wave behavior and contracting wave segments. Unbounded wave segments (critical fingers) lie on the asymptote of this separatrix, defining the boundary between excitable and subexcitable media. The model predictions are compared with results from numerical simulations.     

Kinematics of wave segments moving through a weakly excitable medium

Traveling wave segments represent typical spatio-temporal patterns in various active media. In particular they appear by a clustering of interacting active Brownian particles under a global constrain. Wave segments are intrinsically unstable and define a separatrix between spiral wave behavior and contracting wave segments. A kinematical model is developed to describe evolution of a wave segment shape during its stabilization by a global feedback to the medium excitability. It is also applied to specify the relationships between the medium excitability and the asymptotic shape of the stabilized wave segment. The model predictions are compared with results from numerical simulations of the underlying reaction-diffusion system.     

Selection of spiral waves in excitable media with a phase wave at the wave back

Universal relationships between the medium excitability and the angular velocity and the core radius of rigidly rotating spiral waves in excitable media are derived for situations where the wave front is a trigger wave and the wave back is a phase wave. Two universal limits restricting the region of existence of spiral waves in the parameter space are demonstrated. The predictions of the free-boundary approach are in good quantitative agreement with results from numerical reaction-diffusion simulations performed on the Kessler-Levine model.     

Controlling chaos by developing spiral wave from heterogeneity in excitable medium

We study pattern formation induced by a spiral wave developing from heterogeneities in an excitable medium. Turbulence can be suppressed by a spiral wave from the heterogeneity, forming multiple coexistent systems of regular geometrical patterns. We find that the types of these patterns depend critically on the degree of heterogeneity. The underlying mechanism is due to dispersion relation which is characterized by excitability.      

Spatial patterns in a network composed of neurons with different excitabilities induced by autapse

It has been identified that autapse can modulate dynamics of single neurons and spatial patterns of neuronal networks. In the present paper, based on the results that autapse can induce type II excitability changed to type I excitability, spatial pattern transitions are simulated in a two-dimensional neuronal network composed of excitatory coupled neurons with autapse which can induce excitability transition. Different spatial patterns including random-like pattern, irregular wave, regular wave, and nearly synchronous behavior are simulated with increasing the percentage (σ) of neurons with type I excitability. When noise is introduced, spiral waves are induced. By calculating signal-to-noise ratio from the spatial structure function and the mean firing probability of neurons, regular waves and spiral waves exhibit optimal spatial correlation, implying the occurrence of spatial coherence resonance phenomenon. The changes of mean firing probability of neurons show that different firing frequency between type I excitability and type II excitability may be an important factor to modulate the spatial patterns. The results are helpful to understand the spatial patterns including spiral waves observed in the biological experiment on the rat cortex perfused with drugs which can induce single neurons changed from type II excitability to type I excitability and block the inhibitory couplings between neurons. The excitability transition, absence of inhibitory coupling, noise as well as the autapse are important factors to modulate the spatial patterns including spiral waves.     

Formation of virtual isthmus: A new scenario of spiral wave death after a decrease in excitability

Termination of rotating (spiral) waves or reentry is crucial when fighting with the most dangerous cardiac tachyarrhythmia. To increase the efficiency of the antiarrhythmic drugs as well as finding new prospective ones it is decisive to know the mechanisms how they act and influence the reentry dynamics. The most popular view on the mode of action of the contemporary antiarrhythmic drugs is that they increase the core of the rotating wave (reentry) to that extent that it is not enough space in the real heart for the reentry to exist. Since the excitation in cardiac cells is essentially change of the membrane potential, it relies on the functioning of the membrane ion channels. Thus, membrane ion channels serve as primary targets for the substances, which may serve as antiarrhythmics. At least, the entire group of antiarrhythmics class I (modulating activity of sodium channels) and partially class IV (modulating activity of calcium channels) are believed to destabilize and terminate reentry by decreasing the excitability of cardiac tissue. We developed an experimental model employing cardiac tissue culture and photosensitizer (AzoTAB) to study the process of the rotating wave termination while decreasing the excitability of the tissue. A new scenario of spiral wave cessation was observed: an asymmetric growth of the rotating wave core and subsequent formation of a virtual isthmus, which eventually caused a conduction block and the termination of the reentry.     

Spiral tip meandering induced by excitability modulation

In this work, we introduce a spatiotemporal modulation for excitability into an excitable medium, the Barkley model. The modulation can make the spiral wave tip meandering. Various types of periodic spiral and quasiperiodic meandering spiral motions can be observed numerically by varying the modulation. And the theoretical analysis for the conditions of Hopf bifurcation, based on an ordinary-differential-equation (ODE) model, is applied to well explain the rich behaviors of numerical simulations.     

非均匀激发介质中螺旋波的演化

采用简单的离散可激发介质模型研究了不同性质和形状的小异质性颗粒对螺旋波演化的影响,在小异质性颗粒均匀分布的情况下,螺旋波的失稳与小异质性颗粒的形状、分布密度和性质有关.数值研究结果表明:在适当的条件下,可以观察到稳定螺旋波发生漫游和螺旋波漂移出系统边界现象,首次观察到螺旋波破碎成空间无序的周期变化斑图和破碎成时空有序的迷宫斑图现象,简要讨论了产生这些现象的物理机理.