Isolation and functional characterization of human ventricular cardiomyocytes from fresh surgical samples

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 86, 2014, Pages

  Coppini, Raffaele ^a   Ferrantini, Cecila ^a   Aiazzi, Alessandro ^a   Mazzoni, Luca ^a   Sartiani, Laura ^a   Mugelli, Alessandro ^a   Poggesi, Corrado ^a   Cerbai, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action potential; Calcium; Cardiac cells; Cardiac disease; Cardiac patients; Cardiology; Electrophysiology; Excitation contraction coupling; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Issue 86; Medicine; Myocardium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940287974     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51116     Document Type: Article

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