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 …

Optical imaging of voltage and calcium in cardiac cells & tissues

TJ Herron, P Lee, J Jalife - Circulation research, 2012‏ - ahajournals.org
Cardiac optical map** has proven to be a powerful technology for studying cardiovascular
function and disease. The development and scientific impact of this methodology are well …

Extracellular matrix–mediated maturation of human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiac monolayer structure and electrophysiological function

TJ Herron, AMD Rocha, KF Campbell… - Circulation …, 2016‏ - ahajournals.org
Background—Human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs)
monolayers generated to date display an immature embryonic-like functional and structural …

Functional cardiac fibroblasts derived from human pluripotent stem cells via second heart field progenitors

J Zhang, R Tao, KF Campbell, JL Carvalho… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) play critical roles in heart development, homeostasis, and disease.
The limited availability of human CFs from native heart impedes investigations of CF biology …

Electrotonic coupling of excitable and nonexcitable cells in the heart revealed by optogenetics

TA Quinn, P Camelliti, EA Rog-Zielinska… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Electrophysiological studies of excitable organs usually focus on action potential (AP)-
generating cells, whereas nonexcitable cells are generally considered as barriers to …

Processing and analysis of cardiac optical map** data obtained with potentiometric dyes

JI Laughner, FS Ng, MS Sulkin… - American Journal of …, 2012‏ - journals.physiology.org
Optical map** has become an increasingly important tool to study cardiac
electrophysiology in the past 20 years. Multiple methods are used to process and analyze …

Simultaneous voltage and calcium map** of genetically purified human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiac myocyte monolayers

P Lee, M Klos, C Bollensdorff, L Hou, P Ewart… - Circulation …, 2012‏ - ahajournals.org
Rationale: Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) offer a
powerful in vitro tool to investigate disease mechanisms and to perform patient-specific drug …

Palette of fluorinated voltage-sensitive hemicyanine dyes

P Yan, CD Acker, WL Zhou, P Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
Optical recording of membrane potential permits spatially resolved measurement of
electrical activity in subcellular regions of single cells, which would be inaccessible to …

ESC working group on cardiac cellular electrophysiology position paper: relevance, opportunities, and limitations of experimental models for cardiac electrophysiology …

KE Odening, AM Gomez, D Dobrev, L Fabritz… - EP …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Cardiac arrhythmias are a major cause of death and disability. A large number of
experimental cell and animal models have been developed to study arrhythmogenic …

A technical review of optical map** of intracellular calcium within myocardial tissue

R Jaimes III, RD Walton, P Pasdois… - American Journal …, 2016‏ - journals.physiology.org
Optical map** of Ca2+-sensitive fluorescence probes has become an extremely useful
approach and adopted by many cardiovascular research laboratories to study a spectrum of …