Cardiac Computing Lab

UCLA Cardiac Computing Lab

Representative publications
  • James N. Weiss, Michael Nivala, Alan Garfinkel, Zhilin Qu, "Alternans and arrhythmias: From cell to heart." Circ. Res. 108, 98-112 (2011)
  • Ling Yang, Paavo Korge, James N. Weiss, and Zhilin Qu, "Mitochondrial oscillations and waves in cardiac myocytes: Insights from computational models." Biophys. J. 98, 1428-38 (2010).
  • Robert Rovetti, Xiaohua Cui, Alan Garfinkel, James N. Weiss, Zhilin Qu, "Spark-induced sparks as a mechanism of intracellular calcium alternans in cardiac myocytes." Circ. Res. 106, 1582-1591 (2010).
  • Daisuke Sato, Lai-Hua Xie, Thao Nyguen, James N. Weiss, Zhilin Qu, "Irregularly-appearing early afterdepolarizations in cardiac myocytes: Random fluctuations or dynamical chaos?" Biophys. J. 99, 765-773 (2010).
  • Yuanfang Xie, Daisuke Sato, Alan Garfinkel, Zhilin Qu, James N. Weiss, "So little source, so much sink: Requirements for afterdepolarizations to propagate in tissue." Biophys. J. 99, 1408-1415 (2010).
  • James N. Weiss, Alan Garfinkel, Hrayr S. Karagueuzian, Peng-Shen Chen, Zhilin Qu, "Early afterdepolarizations and cardiac arrhythmias." Heart Rhythm 7:1891-1899 (2010).
  • Zhilin Qu, Yuanfang Xie, Alan Garfinkel, James N. Weiss, "T-wave alternans and arrhythmogenesis in cardiac diseases". Frontiers in Physiology 1, 154 (2010). 0
  • Daisuke Sato, Lai-Hua Xie, Ali A. Sovari, Diana X. Tran, Norishige Morita, Fagen Xie, Hryar Karagueuzian, Alan Garfinkel, James N. Weiss, and Zhilin Qu. "Synchronization of chaotic early afterdepolarizations in the genesis of cardiac arrhythmias." PNAS. 106, 2983-2988 (2009)
  • Diana X. Tran, Daisuke Sato, Arik Yochelis, James N. Weiss, Alan Garfinkel, Zhilin Qu. "Bifurcations and Chaos in a Model of Cardiac Early Afterdepolarizations." Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 258103. (2009)
  • Xiaohua Cui, Robert J. Rovetti, Ling Yang, Alan Garfinkel, James N. Weiss, and Zhilin Qu "Period-doubling bifurcation in an array of coupled stochastically excitable elements subjected to global periodic forcing." Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 044102 (2009).
  • Yuanfang Xie, Alan Garfinkel, James N. Weiss, and Zhilin Qu, "Cardiac alternans induced by fibroblast-myocyte coupling: Mechanistic insights from mathematical models." Am. J. Physiol. 297, H775-784 (2009).
  • Daisuke Sato, Yuanfang Xie, James N. Weiss, Zhilin Qu, Alan Garfinkel, and Allen R Sanderson, "Acceleration of cardiac tissue simulation with graphic processing units." Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 47, 1011-1015 (2009).
  • Yuanfang Xie, Alan Garfinkel, Patrizia Camelliti, Peter Kohl, James N. Weiss, and Zhilin Qu, "Effects of fibroblast-myocyte coupling on cardiac conduction and vulnerability to reentry." Heart Rhythm 6, 1641-9 (2009).
  • Aman Mahajan, Yohannes Shiferaw, Daisuke Sato, Ali Baher, Riccardo Olcese, Lai-Hua Xie, Ming-Jim Yang, Peng-Sheng Chen, Juan G. Restrepo, Alain Karma, Alan Garfinkel, Zhilin Qu, and James N. Weiss, "A rabbit ventricular action potential model replicating cardiac dynamics at rapid heart rates." Biophys. J. 94, 392-410 (2008).
  • Ling Yang, Thomas Vondriska, James N. Weiss, and Zhilin Qu, "Deducing topology of protein-protein interaction networks from experimentally measured sub-networks." BMC Bioinformatics 9, 301 (2008).
  • Arik Yochelis, Edgar Knoblock, Yuanfang Xie, Zhilin Qu, and Alan Garfinkel, "Generation of finite pulse trains in excitable media." Europhys. Lett. 83, 64005 (2008).