Cardiac optogenetics: a decade of enlightenment

E Entcheva, MW Kay - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
The electromechanical function of the heart involves complex, coordinated activity over time
and space. Life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias arise from asynchrony in these space–time …

Guidelines for assessment of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias in small animals

CM Ripplinger, AV Glukhov, MW Kay… - American Journal …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiac arrhythmias are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although
recent advances in cell-based models, including human-induced pluripotent stem cell …

Simultaneous widefield voltage and dye-free optical map** quantifies electromechanical waves in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

W Liu, JL Han, J Tomek, G Bub, E Entcheva - ACS photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Coupled electromechanical waves define a heart's function in health and diseases. Optical
map** of electrical waves using fluorescent labels offers mechanistic insights into cardiac …

COSMAS: a lightweight toolbox for cardiac optical map** analysis

J Tomek, ZJ Wang, RAB Burton, N Herring, G Bub - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Optical map** is widely used in experimental cardiology, as it allows visualization of
cardiac membrane potential and calcium transients. However, optical map** …

Neurohumoral cardiac regulation: Optogenetics gets into the groove

A Scalco, N Moro, M Mongillo, T Zaglia - Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The cardiac autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the main modulator of heart function,
adapting contraction force, and rate to the continuous variations of intrinsic and extrinsic …

Novel optics-based approaches for cardiac electrophysiology: a review

MC Müllenbroich, A Kelly, C Acker, G Bub… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Optical techniques for recording and manipulating cellular electrophysiology have advanced
rapidly in just a few decades. These developments allow for the analysis of cardiac cellular …

From mice to mainframes: experimental models for investigation of the Intracardiac nervous system

MR Stoyek, L Hortells, TA Quinn - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The intracardiac nervous system (IcNS), sometimes referred to as the “little brain” of the
heart, is involved in modulating many aspects of cardiac physiology. In recent years our …

Activation of IP3R in atrial cardiomyocytes leads to generation of cytosolic cAMP

EC Akerman, MJ Read, SJ Bose… - American Journal …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. Excessive
stimulation of the inositol (1, 4, 5)-trisphosphate (IP3) signaling pathway has been linked to …

Cardiac optogenetics: shining light on signaling pathways

S Leemann, F Schneider-Warme… - Pflügers Archiv-European …, 2023 - Springer
In the early 2000s, the field of neuroscience experienced a groundbreaking transformation
with the advent of optogenetics. This innovative technique harnesses the properties of …

Extracellular matrix components halt peripheral nerve regeneration after myocardial infarction

E Entcheva, MW Kay - American Journal of Physiology …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
26 Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) are extracellular matrix (ECM) components
that are 27 involved in cell adhesion, growth and migration, especially in connective tissue …