Zebrafish: a novel research tool for cardiac (patho)electrophysiology and ion channel disorders
The zebrafish is a cold-blooded tropical freshwater teleost with a two-chamber heart morphology, typical for non-mammalian vertebrates. A major advantage of the zebrafish for heart studies is that the embryo is transparent, allowing for easy assessment of heart development, heart rate analysis and p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00255/full |