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Neural Network Differential Equations For Ion Channel Modelling (2021)
Journal Article
Lei, C. L., & Mirams, G. R. (2021). Neural Network Differential Equations For Ion Channel Modelling. Frontiers in Physiology, 12, Article 708944. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.708944

Mathematical models of cardiac ion channels have been widely used to study and predict the behaviour of ion currents. Typically models are built using biophysically-based mechanistic principles such as Hodgkin-Huxley or Markov state transitions. Thes... Read More about Neural Network Differential Equations For Ion Channel Modelling.

Immediate and Delayed Response of Simulated Human Atrial Myocytes to Clinically-Relevant Hypokalemia (2021)
Journal Article
Clerx, M., Mirams, G. R., Rogers, A. J., Narayan, S. M., & Giles, W. R. (2021). Immediate and Delayed Response of Simulated Human Atrial Myocytes to Clinically-Relevant Hypokalemia. Frontiers in Physiology, 12, Article 651162. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.651162

Although plasma electrolyte levels are quickly and precisely regulated in the mammalian cardiovascular system, even small transient changes in K+, Na+, Ca2+, and/or Mg2+ can significantly alter physiological responses in the heart, blood vessels, and... Read More about Immediate and Delayed Response of Simulated Human Atrial Myocytes to Clinically-Relevant Hypokalemia.

Cardiac TdP risk stratification modelling of anti-infective compounds including chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine (2021)
Journal Article
Whittaker, D. G., Capel, R. A., Hendrix, M., Chan, X. H. S., Herring, N., White, N. J., …Burton, R. A. B. (2021). Cardiac TdP risk stratification modelling of anti-infective compounds including chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Royal Society Open Science, 8(4), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210235

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the hydroxyl derivative of chloroquine (CQ), is widely used in the treatment of rheumatological conditions (systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis) and is being studied for the treatment and prevention of COVID-1... Read More about Cardiac TdP risk stratification modelling of anti-infective compounds including chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.

Development, Implementation and Testing of a Multicellular Dynamic Action Potential Clamp Simulator for Drug Cardiac Safety Assessment (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Camporesi, M., Bartolucci, C., Lei, C. L., Mirams, G. R., De Boer, T. P., & Severi, S. (2020). Development, Implementation and Testing of a Multicellular Dynamic Action Potential Clamp Simulator for Drug Cardiac Safety Assessment. . https://doi.org/10.22489/CinC.2020.416

© 2020 Creative Commons; the authors hold their copyright. As drugs can be multichannel blockers it is important to assess their cardiac safety taking into account multiple currents. In silico action potential (AP) models have been proposed for being... Read More about Development, Implementation and Testing of a Multicellular Dynamic Action Potential Clamp Simulator for Drug Cardiac Safety Assessment.

Use of Patient Health Records to Quantify Drug-Related Pro-arrhythmic Risk (2020)
Journal Article
Davies, M. R., Martinec, M., Walls, R., Schwarz, R., Mirams, G. R., Wang, K., …Polonchuk, L. (2020). Use of Patient Health Records to Quantify Drug-Related Pro-arrhythmic Risk. Cell Reports Medicine, 1(5), Article 100076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2020.100076

There is an increasing expectation that computational approaches may supplement existing human decision-making. Frontloading of models for cardiac safety prediction is no exception to this trend, and ongoing regulatory initiatives propose use of high... Read More about Use of Patient Health Records to Quantify Drug-Related Pro-arrhythmic Risk.

A nonlinear and time-dependent leak current in the presence of calcium fluoride patch-clamp seal enhancer [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations] (2020)
Journal Article
Lei, C. L., Fabbri, A., Whittaker, D. G., Clerx, M., Windley, M. J., Hill, A. P., …de Boer, T. P. (2020). A nonlinear and time-dependent leak current in the presence of calcium fluoride patch-clamp seal enhancer [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 5, Article 152. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15968.1

Automated patch-clamp platforms are widely used and vital tools in both academia and industry to enable high-throughput studies such as drug screening. A leak current to ground occurs whenever the seal between a pipette and cell (or internal solution... Read More about A nonlinear and time-dependent leak current in the presence of calcium fluoride patch-clamp seal enhancer [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations].

Accounting for variability in ion current recordings using a mathematical model of artefacts in voltage-clamp experiments (2020)
Journal Article
Clerx, M., Lei, C. L., Whittaker, D. G., Gavaghan, D. J., de Boer, T. P., & Mirams, G. R. (2020). Accounting for variability in ion current recordings using a mathematical model of artefacts in voltage-clamp experiments. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 378(2173), Article 20190348. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0348

Mathematical models of ion channels, which constitute indispensable components of action potential models, are commonly constructed by fitting to whole-cell patch-clamp data. In a previous study, we fitted cell-specific models to hERG1a (Kv11.1) reco... Read More about Accounting for variability in ion current recordings using a mathematical model of artefacts in voltage-clamp experiments.

Considering discrepancy when calibrating a mechanistic electrophysiology model (2020)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, R. D., Worden, K., Walmsley, J., Dos Santos, R. W., Riabiz, M., Pathmanathan, P., …Whittaker, D. G. (2020). Considering discrepancy when calibrating a mechanistic electrophysiology model. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 378(2173), 20190349. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0349

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is a vital step in using mathematical models and simulations to take decisions. The field of cardiac simulation has begun to explore and adopt UQ methods to characterize uncertainty in model inputs and how that propaga... Read More about Considering discrepancy when calibrating a mechanistic electrophysiology model.

Corrigendum to “A systematic strategy for estimating hERG block potency and its implications in a new cardiac safety paradigm” [Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology volume 394C (2020) 114961] (2020)
Journal Article
Ridder, B. J., Leishman, D. J., Bridgland-Taylor, M., Samieegohar, M., Han, X., Wu, W. W., …Li, Z. (2020). Corrigendum to “A systematic strategy for estimating hERG block potency and its implications in a new cardiac safety paradigm” [Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology volume 394C (2020) 114961]. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 395, Article 114983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.taap.2020.114983

© 2020 The Author(s) The authors regret that one affiliation address is mistaken in the published paper. Matthew Bridgland-Taylor's affiliation was incorrectly listed as Clinical Pharmacology & Safety Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kin... Read More about Corrigendum to “A systematic strategy for estimating hERG block potency and its implications in a new cardiac safety paradigm” [Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology volume 394C (2020) 114961].

A systematic strategy for estimating hERG block potency and its implications in a new cardiac safety paradigm (2020)
Journal Article
Bardenet, R., Ridder, B. J., Leishman, D. J., Bridgland-Taylor, M., Samieegohar, M., Han, X., …Li, Z. (2020). A systematic strategy for estimating hERG block potency and its implications in a new cardiac safety paradigm. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 394, Article 114961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.taap.2020.114961

© 2020 Introduction: hERG block potency is widely used to calculate a drug's safety margin against its torsadogenic potential. Previous studies are confounded by use of different patch clamp electrophysiology protocols and a lack of statistical quant... Read More about A systematic strategy for estimating hERG block potency and its implications in a new cardiac safety paradigm.

Calibration of ionic and cellular cardiac electrophysiology models (2020)
Journal Article
Whittaker, D. G., Clerx, M., Lei, C. L., Christini, D. J., & Mirams, G. R. (2020). Calibration of ionic and cellular cardiac electrophysiology models. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine, 12(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/wsbm.1482

© 2020 The Authors. WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Cardiac electrophysiology models are among the most mature and well-studied mathematical models of biological systems. This maturity is bringing new challenge... Read More about Calibration of ionic and cellular cardiac electrophysiology models.

Rapid characterisation of hERG channel kinetics II: temperature dependence (2019)
Journal Article
Lei, C. L., Clerx, M., Beattie, K. A., Melgari, D., Hancox, J. C., Gavaghan, D. J., …Mirams, G. R. (2019). Rapid characterisation of hERG channel kinetics II: temperature dependence. Biophysical Journal, 117(12), 2455-2470. https://doi.org/10.1101/609719

Ion channel behavior can depend strongly on temperature, with faster kinetics at physiological temperatures leading to considerable changes in currents relative to room temperature. These temperature-dependent changes in voltage-dependent ion channel... Read More about Rapid characterisation of hERG channel kinetics II: temperature dependence.

General Principles for the Validation of Proarrhythmia Risk Prediction Models: An Extension of the CiPA In Silico Strategy (2019)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Mirams, G. R., Yoshinaga, T., Ridder, B. J., Han, X., Chen, J. E., …Strauss, D. G. (2020). General Principles for the Validation of Proarrhythmia Risk Prediction Models: An Extension of the CiPA In Silico Strategy. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 107(1), 102-111. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.1647

This white paper presents principles for validating proarrhythmia risk prediction models for regulatory use as discussed at the In Silico Breakout Session of a Cardiac Safety Research Consortium/Health and Environmental Sciences Institute/US Food and... Read More about General Principles for the Validation of Proarrhythmia Risk Prediction Models: An Extension of the CiPA In Silico Strategy.

Four Ways to Fit an Ion Channel Model (2019)
Journal Article
Clerx, M., Beattie, K., Gavaghan, D., & Mirams, G. (2019). Four Ways to Fit an Ion Channel Model. Biophysical Journal, 117(12), 2420-2437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.08.001

© 2019 Biophysical Society Mathematical models of ionic currents are used to study the electrophysiology of the heart, brain, gut, and several other organs. Increasingly, these models are being used predictively in the clinic, for example, to predict... Read More about Four Ways to Fit an Ion Channel Model.

Rapid Characterization of hERG Channel Kinetics I: Using an Automated High-Throughput System (2019)
Journal Article
Lei, C. L., Clerx, M., Gavaghan, D. J., Polonchuk, L., Mirams, G. R., & Wang, K. (2019). Rapid Characterization of hERG Channel Kinetics I: Using an Automated High-Throughput System. Biophysical Journal, 117(12), 2438-2454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.07.029

Predicting how pharmaceuticals may affect heart rhythm is a crucial step in drug-development, and requires a deep understanding of a compound’s action on ion channels. In vitro hERG-channel current recordings are an important step in evaluating the p... Read More about Rapid Characterization of hERG Channel Kinetics I: Using an Automated High-Throughput System.

Rapid Characterization of hERG Channel Kinetics II: Temperature Dependence (2019)
Journal Article
Lei, C. L., Clerx, M., Beattie, K. A., Melgari, D., Hancox, J. C., Gavaghan, D. J., …Mirams, G. R. (2019). Rapid Characterization of hERG Channel Kinetics II: Temperature Dependence. Biophysical Journal, 117(12), 2455-2470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.07.030

© 2019 Biophysical Society Ion channel behavior can depend strongly on temperature, with faster kinetics at physiological temperatures leading to considerable changes in currents relative to room temperature. These temperature-dependent changes in vo... Read More about Rapid Characterization of hERG Channel Kinetics II: Temperature Dependence.