A femtosecond laser pacemaker for heart muscle cells

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8604-8616

  Smith, N I ^a   Kumamoto, Y ^a   Iwanaga, S ^a   Ando, J ^a   Fujita, K ^a   Kawata, S ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; INFRARED DEVICES; IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

CARDIOMYOCYTE CONTRACTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTRACTION CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELLS; NEAR INFRARED FEMTOSECOND LASER; NEONATAL RAT CARDIOMYOCYTES; OPTICAL CONTROL;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CELL CULTURE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PACING; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 45249084503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008604     Document Type: Article

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