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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.696270
关键词
optical mapping; cardiac electrophysiology; voltage sensitive dyes; calcium sensitive dyes; animal models
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资金
- Ministry of Science and Innovation
- Pro CNIC Foundation
- Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence [SEV-2015-0505]
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional [CB16/11/00458]
- Fundacion Interhospitalaria para la Investigacion Cardiovascular (FIC)
Experts from various disciplines are collaborating to better understand heart disease using techniques such as optical mapping, which has led to the development of a complete and low-cost research tool. The goal is to make this powerful tool more accessible to clinical scientists and students for cardiac electrophysiology research, providing high-resolution data on key parameters in isolated hearts to facilitate translational research.
Clinicians, biologists, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists are coming together to better understand heart disease, which is currently the leading cause of death globally. Optical mapping, a high-speed fluorescence imaging technique that visualizes and measures key cardiac parameters such as action potentials, cytosolic calcium transients, and fibrillation dynamics, is a core research tool that has arisen from such interdisciplinary collaborations. In an effort to broaden its use, especially among clinical scientists and students, we developed a complete and low-cost optical mapping system, including a constant-flow Langendorff perfusion system, which minimizes the economic threshold to widespread use of this powerful tool in cardiac electrophysiology research. The system described here provides high spatiotemporal resolution data about action potentials, intracellular calcium transients and fibrillation wave dynamics in isolated Langendorff-perfused hearts (pigs and rabbits), relevant for translational research. All system components and software elements are fully disclosed with the aim of increasing the use of this affordable and highly versatile tool among clinicians, basic scientists and students wishing to tackle their own research questions with their own customizable systems.
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