Tomek Jakub, Zhou Xin, Martinez-Navarro Hector, Holmes Maxx, Bury Thomas, Berg Lucas Arantes, Tomkova Marketa, Jo Emily, Nagy Norbert, Bertrand Ambre, Bueno-Orovio Alfonso, Colman Michael, Rodriguez Blanca, Bers Donald, Heijma Jordi
Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics (University of Oxford).
Department of Pharmacology (UC Davis).
bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 28:2025.03.24.645031. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.24.645031.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, demanding new tools to improve mechanistic understanding and overcome limitations of stem cell and animal-based research. We introduce T-World, a highly general virtual model of human ventricular cardiomyocyte suitable for multiscale studies. T-World shows comprehensive agreement with human physiology, from electrical activation to contraction, and is the first to replicate all key cellular mechanisms driving life-threatening arrhythmias. Extensively validated on unseen data, it demonstrates strong predictivity across applications and scales. Using T-World we revealed a likely sex-specific arrhythmia risk in females related to restitution properties, identified arrhythmia drivers in type 2 diabetes, and describe unexpected pro-arrhythmic role of NaV1.8 in heart failure. T-World demonstrates strong performance in predicting drug-induced arrhythmia risk and opens new opportunities for predicting and explaining drug efficacy, demonstrated by unpicking effects of mexiletine in Long QT syndrome 2. T-World is available as open-source code and an online app.
心血管疾病是主要的死亡原因,需要新的工具来增进对发病机制的理解,并克服基于干细胞和动物研究的局限性。我们引入了T-World,这是一种高度通用的人类心室心肌细胞虚拟模型,适用于多尺度研究。T-World在从电激活到收缩的过程中与人体生理学表现出全面的一致性,并且是首个复制所有导致危及生命的心律失常的关键细胞机制的模型。该模型在未见数据上得到广泛验证,在各种应用和尺度上均表现出很强的预测能力。通过使用T-World,我们揭示了女性中可能存在的与恢复特性相关的性别特异性心律失常风险,确定了2型糖尿病中的心律失常驱动因素,并描述了NaV1.8在心力衰竭中意外的促心律失常作用。T-World在预测药物性心律失常风险方面表现出色,并为预测和解释药物疗效开辟了新机会,通过剖析美西律在长QT综合征2中的作用得以证明。T-World以开源代码和在线应用程序的形式提供。