Automated analysis of contractile force and Ca2+ transients in engineered heart tissue

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Stoehr, Andrea ^a,b   Neuber, Christiane ^a,b   Baldauf, Christina ^a,b   Vollert, Ingra ^a,b   Friedrich, Felix W ^a,b   Flenner, Frederik ^a,b   Carrier, Lucie ^a,b   Eder, Alexandra ^a,b   Schaaf, Sebastian ^a,b   Hirt, Marc N ^a,b   Aksehirlioglu, Bülent ^a,b   Tong, Carl W ^c   Moretti, Alessandra ^b,d   Eschenhagen, Thomas ^a,b   Hansen, Arne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac tissue engineering; Contractile analysis; hiPSC

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CARBACHOL; FURA 2; ISOPRENALINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MOUSE; MYOFILAMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CA2+ TRANSIENT; CARDIAC TISSUE ENGINEERING; CONTRACTILE ANALYSIS; HIPSC;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84900549462     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00705.2013     Document Type: Article

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