The best thing since sliced bread? Optical mapping of transverse cardiac slices in the mouse heart

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Crystal M Ripplinger. J Physiol. 2018 Sep.

. 2018 Sep;596(17):3825-3826.

doi: 10.1113/JP276669. Epub 2018 Jul 21.

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Keywords: Calcium transient; action potential; optical mapping; tissue slices.

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Transverse cardiac slicing and optical imaging for analysis of transmural gradients in membrane potential and Ca²⁺ transients in murine heart.
Wen Q, Gandhi K, Capel RA, Hao G, O'Shea C, Neagu G, Pearcey S, Pavlovic D, Terrar DA, Wu J, Faggian G, Camelliti P, Lei M. Wen Q, et al. J Physiol. 2018 Sep;596(17):3951-3965. doi: 10.1113/JP276239. Epub 2018 Jul 26. J Physiol. 2018. PMID: 29928770 Free PMC article.

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