Pharmacological elimination of motion artifacts during optical imaging of cardiac tissues: Is blebbistatin the answer?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 627-628

  Li, Danshi ^a   Nattel, Stanley ^b  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEBBISTATIN; CALCIUM ION; CYTOCHALASIN D; DIACETYL OXIME; F ACTIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN II; POTASSIUM ION;

ARTIFACT; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG SPECIFICITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34247325611     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.01.013     Document Type: Editorial

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