Living cardiac tissue slices: An organotypic pseudo two-dimensional model for cardiac biophysics research

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 314-327

  Wang, Ken ^a   Terrar, Derek ^b   Gavaghan, David J ^a   Mu u min, Razik ^c   Kohl, Peter ^a,d   Bollensdorff, Christian ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c QATAR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Qatar)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial stretch; Mechano electric feedback; Multi parametric; Optical mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027954484     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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