Video-imaging assessment of initial beating patterns of the early embryonic chick heart

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 465-472

  Sakai, Tetsuro ^a   Hirota, Akihiko ^a,b   Kamino, Kohtaro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D modeling; Early chick embryo; Embryonic heart; Image processing; Initial heart beat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; HEART BEAT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; HEART; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030433889     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.46.465     Document Type: Article

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