Myocardial tissue slices: Organotypic pseudo-2D models for cardiac research & development

Future Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 425-430

  de Boer, Teun P ^a,b   Camelliti, Patrizia ^a   Ravens, Ursula ^c   Kohl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART ARREST; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE SLICE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 70349196805     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.09.32     Document Type: Editorial

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