J 2020

Acute effects of alcohol on cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis: Insights from multiscale in silico analyses

SUTANTO, Henry, Matthijs J.M. CLUITMANS, Dobromir DOBREV, Paul G.A. VOLDERS, Markéta BÉBAROVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Acute effects of alcohol on cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis: Insights from multiscale in silico analyses

Authors

SUTANTO, Henry (528 Netherlands), Matthijs J.M. CLUITMANS (528 Netherlands), Dobromir DOBREV (276 Germany), Paul G.A. VOLDERS (528 Netherlands), Markéta BÉBAROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jordi HEIJMAN (528 Netherlands, guarantor)

Edition

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Oxford, Elsevier, 2020, 0022-2828

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30105 Physiology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 5.000

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/20:00116225

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

UT WoS

000571869800001

Keywords in English

ethanol; cardiac electrophysiology; arrhythmia; computational modeling; atrial fibrillation

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 8/10/2020 08:21, Mgr. Tereza Miškechová

Abstract

V originále

Acute excessive ethyl alcohol (ethanol) consumption alters cardiac electrophysiology and can evoke cardiac arrhythmias, e.g., in ‘holiday heart syndrome’. Ethanol acutely modulates numerous targets in cardiomyocytes, including ion channels, calcium-handling proteins and gap junctions. However, the mechanisms underlying ethanol-induced arrhythmogenesis remain incompletely understood and difficult to study experimentally due to the multiple electrophysiological targets involved and their potential interactions with preexisting electrophysiological or structural substrates. Here, we employed cellular- and tissue-level in-silico analyses to characterize the acute effects of ethanol on cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis. Acute electrophysiological effects of ethanol were incorporated into human atrial and ventricular cardiomyocyte computer models: reduced INa, ICa,L, Ito, IKr and IKur, dual effects on IK1 and IK,ACh (inhibition at low and augmentation at high concentrations), and increased INCX and SR Ca2+ leak. Multiscale simulations in the absence or presence of preexistent atrial fibrillation or heart-failure-related remodeling demonstrated that low ethanol concentrations prolonged atrial action-potential duration (APD) without effects on ventricular APD. Conversely, high ethanol concentrations abbreviated atrial APD and prolonged ventricular APD. High ethanol concentrations promoted reentry in tissue simulations, but the extent of reentry promotion was dependent on the presence of altered intercellular coupling, and the degree, type, and pattern of fibrosis. Taken together, these data provide novel mechanistic insight into the potential proarrhythmic interactions between a preexisting substrate and acute changes in cardiac electrophysiology. In particular, acute ethanol exposure has concentration-dependent electrophysiological effects that differ between atria and ventricles, and between healthy and diseased hearts. Low concentrations of ethanol can have anti-fibrillatory effects in atria, whereas high concentrations promote the inducibility and maintenance of reentrant atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, supporting a role for limiting alcohol intake as part of cardiac arrhythmia management.

Links

MUNI/A/1307/2019, interní kód MU
Name: Kardiovaskulární systém od A do Z (Acronym: KAVASAZ)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A