With or Without Langendorff: A New Method for Adult Myocyte Isolation to Be Tested With Time

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Physiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (X.C.); Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (T.D.O.); and Department of Pharmacology, University of California at Davis (Y.K.X.).
² From the Department of Physiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (X.C.); Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (T.D.O.); and Department of Pharmacology, University of California at Davis (Y.K.X.). tdoconne@umn.edu.

Editorial

Xiongwen Chen et al. Circ Res. 2016.

. 2016 Sep 30;119(8):888-90.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.309734.

¹ From the Department of Physiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (X.C.); Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (T.D.O.); and Department of Pharmacology, University of California at Davis (Y.K.X.).
² From the Department of Physiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (X.C.); Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (T.D.O.); and Department of Pharmacology, University of California at Davis (Y.K.X.). tdoconne@umn.edu.

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Keywords: Editorials; Langendorff perfused heart; cell culture techniques; fibroblasts; muscle cells; myocytes, cardiac.

Comment on

A Simplified, Langendorff-Free Method for Concomitant Isolation of Viable Cardiac Myocytes and Nonmyocytes From the Adult Mouse Heart.
Ackers-Johnson M, Li PY, Holmes AP, O'Brien SM, Pavlovic D, Foo RS. Ackers-Johnson M, et al. Circ Res. 2016 Sep 30;119(8):909-20. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.309202. Epub 2016 Aug 8. Circ Res. 2016. PMID: 27502479 Free PMC article.

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