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Understanding heart function requires integrating molecular and whole-organ physiology. The MoCA approach analyzes cardiac energetics and contractile activity, revealing insights into pathologies and potential therapeutic targets.

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  • Cardiovascular Biology
  • Biophysics

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  • Human pathologies involve complex interactions across physiological integration levels.
  • Whole organ function provides insights not predictable from molecular events alone.
  • Integrating molecular analysis with whole organ physiology is crucial for understanding pathologies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop novel experimental strategies for studying integrated organ physiology.
  • To investigate the link between molecular events in pathologies and whole organ function/dysfunction.
  • To explore the control and regulation of cardiac energetics during contraction.

Main Methods:

  • Developed Modular Control and regulation Analysis (MoCA), an integrative approach.
  • Combined control analysis principles with noninvasive 31P NMR.
  • Simultaneously measured energetic intermediates and heart contractile activity in isolated perfused hearts.

Main Results:

  • MoCA provides access to integrated organ function and reveals 'elasticities'—integrated internal responses to metabolic changes.
  • Identified different modes of energetic regulation of cardiac contraction.
  • Demonstrated potential for MoCA to detect pathology origins and quantify drug effects on heart function.

Conclusions:

  • MoCA offers a novel approach to understanding integrated organ physiology in pathologies.
  • The 'elasticities' concept derived from MoCA is key to understanding pathological processes.
  • MoCA has potential for clinical applications in detecting heart pathologies via noninvasive cardiac energetics examination.