Web-based neuromuscular simulator applied to the teaching of principles of neuroscience

MioLab, a rat cardiac contractile force simulator: Applications to teaching cardiac cell physiology and biophysics

“…As a result, these models, which were intended in the past only to research, are now being incorporated to education in the teaching-learning process of basic concepts of sciences in general, particularly biology. This is applied to studies in neuroscience and motor control, where a practical approach using laboratory experiments and computer simulations can complement theoretical classes [2]. This also occurs in cardiac cell physiology and biophysics, where the development of computational models for cardiac myocytes began as an extension to the Hodgkin-Huxley model [3], i.e., equations for giant squid axon, and originated a wide variety of models for cardiac cells [13].…”