Cell cultures as models of cardiac mechanoelectric feedback

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 97, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 367-382

  Zhang, Yibing ^a   Sekar, Rajesh B ^a   McCulloch, Andrew D ^b   Tung, Leslie ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic stretch; Cardiac cell monolayer; Electrophysiology; Mechanoelectrical feedback; Optical mapping; Pressure; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEEDBACK; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

RATTUS;

EID: 46549086503     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2008.02.017     Document Type: Review

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