Heart on a plate: histological and functional assessment of isolated adult zebrafish hearts maintained in culture.

The zebrafish is increasingly used for cardiovascular genetic and functional studies. We present a novel protocol to maintain and monitor whole isolated beating adult zebrafish hearts in culture for long-term experiments. Excised whole adult zebrafish hearts were transferred directly into culture di...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Pieperhoff, Kathryn S Wilson, James Baily, Kim de Mora, Sana Maqsood, Sharron Vass, Jonathan Taylor, Jorge Del-Pozo, Calum A MacRae, John J Mullins, Martin A Denvir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4019527?pdf=render