/* * The FitzHugh-Nagumo Simplified Cardiac Myocyte Model * * Model Status * * This version of the model has been curated by Penny Noble using * COR and is also known to read in to JSim and PCEnv. There is * also a PCEnv session file associated with this model. * * Model Structure * * Often it is not necessary to model the ionic currents of a cell * with the accuracy and complexity inherent in the biophysically * based models. With a view to investigating phenomena on a larger * spatial and temporal scale, several ionic current models have * been developed that do not seek to model subcellular processes * but only to provide an action potential at a minimal computational * cost. * * The FitzHugh-Nagumo model (1961) is based on the cubic excitation * model (see The Polynomial Model, 1975), but it also includes * a recovery variable so both depolarisation and repolarisation * can be modelled. In 1994, Rogers and McCulloch modified the * original model to generate a more realistic action potential. * The velocity of the upstroke was increased and the large hyperpolarisation * at the end of the recovery phase was removed. The model parameters * were also updated. In 1996, this form of the already modified * FitzHugh_Nagumo model was further updated by Aliev and Panfilov. * They altered the equation which modelled the change of the recovery * variable to provide a more realistic restitution period and * to allow for reentrant phenomena. * * The complete original paper references are cited below: * * Impulses and physiological states in theoretical models of nerve * membrane, FitzHugh, R.A., 1961, Biophys. J., 1, 445-466. * * An active pulse transmission line simulating nerve axon, Nagumo, * J., Animoto, S., Yoshizawa, S., 1962, Proc. Inst. Radio Engineers, * 50, 2061-2070. * * A collocation-Galerkin finite element model of cardiac action * potential propagation, Rogers, J.M., McCulloch, A.D., 1994a, * IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 41, 743-757. * * A simple two-variable model of cardiac excitation, Aliev, R.R. * and Panfilov, A.V., 1996, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 7, 293-301. * PubMed ID: 8796189 * * The raw CellML description of the simplified cardiac myocyte * models can be downloaded in various formats as described in * . For an example of a more complete documentation for an electrophysiological * model, see The Hodgkin-Huxley Squid Axon Model, 1952. */ import nsrunit; unit conversion on; // unit millisecond predefined unit per_millisecond=1E3 second^(-1); math main { realDomain t millisecond; t.min=0; extern t.max; extern t.delta; real v(t) dimensionless; when(t=t.min) v=0; real w(t) dimensionless; when(t=t.min) w=0; real alpha dimensionless; alpha=-0.08; real gamma dimensionless; gamma=3; real epsilon dimensionless; epsilon=0.005; real I(t) dimensionless; // I=(if ((t>=(0 millisecond)) and (t<=(.5 millisecond))) (-1)*80 else 0); v:t=((1 per_millisecond)*(v*(v-alpha)*(1-v)-w+I)); w:t=((1 per_millisecond)*epsilon*(v-gamma*w)); }