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NATURE PROTOCOLS
卷 16, 期 10, 页码 4650-4675出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00590-6
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- British Heart Foundation (BHF)
- Medical Research Council (MRC) [BHF PG/18/49/33833, BHF IG/14/2/30991, BHF/PG/16/104/32652, MRC MR/L012723/1]
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre
- British Heart Foundation [FS/08/033/25111, FS/13/16/30199, IG/13/5/30431, PG/18/11/33552]
- Oxford BHF Centre of Research Excellence [RE/13/1/30181]
- BHF
- MRC
- MRC [MR/L012723/1] Funding Source: UKRI
This protocol details how to conduct high spatial and temporal Ca2+ imaging of ex vivo multicellular myocardial strips, including the endocardial surface, to study the Ca2+ signaling that underpins cardiomyocyte contraction.
Ca2+ handling within cardiac myocytes underpins coordinated contractile function within the beating heart. This protocol enables high spatial and temporal Ca2+ imaging of ex vivo multicellular myocardial strips. The endocardial surface is retained, and strips of 150-300-mu m thickness are dissected, loaded with Ca2+ indicators and mounted within 1.5 h. A list of the equipment and reagents used and the key methodological aspects allowing the use of this technique on strips from any chamber of the mammalian heart are described. We have successfully used this protocol on human, pig and rat biopsy samples. On use of this protocol with intact endocardial endothelium, we demonstrated that the myocytes develop asynchronous spontaneous Ca2+ events, which can be ablated by electrically evoked Ca2+ transients, and subsequently redevelop spontaneously after cessation of stimulation. This protocol thus offers a rapid and reliable method for studying the Ca2+ signaling underpinning cardiomyocyte contraction, in both healthy and diseased tissue. This protocol describes how to undertake high spatial and temporal Ca2+ imaging of ex vivo multicellular myocardial strips that include the endocardial surface, allowing the study of the Ca2+ signaling that underpins cardiomyocyte contraction.
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