Muscles are thermogenic organs for adult mammals and birds but can also be thermosensitive. In this respect, recent research has shown the excitability of cardiac muscle tissue when irradiated with infrared laser light. Likewise, intrinsic muscle function should give place to local thermal gradients, either because of Ca2+-ATPase thermoregulatory mechanisms or, specifically in the skeletal muscle, after intense exercise. Alongside internal thermal gradients, muscle fatigue characterizes by stressful cellular conditions. Similar to stress-like conditions has been documented in myocytes from rats, the emergence of oscillations of important biochemical species [1]. We show how a thermal gradient or a thermal pulse influences the dynamics of biochemical oscillations in a simplified biochemical model of muscle fiber and discuss the consequences in a living muscle. For this purpose, each simplified sarcomere behavior is governed according to a modified Sal'nikov model, as proposed in a previous paper [2].
Traditionally, thermokinetic and chemical oscillations have been studied independently, but in cellular media recent studies have shown that cell's temperature is not uniform. Thus, on this context it is possible to inquire about the influence of thermal effects on chemical oscillatory behavior and vice versa. To this end, in this paper we propose a dynamical model based on a modified Sal'nikov oscillator that can address both kinds of oscillatory behavior (thermokinetic and chemical). We found that the system modeled can jump from thermal oscillations to mixed chemical-thermal oscillations through a transition or bifurcation parameter. Thermokinetic oscillations are well defined in a limit cycle, while chemical-thermal oscillations appear in the form of a burst. The model could be useful in explaining biochemical energy recovery under cellular stress conditions.
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