| Literature DB >> 20881965 |
Tobias Bruegmann1, Daniela Malan, Michael Hesse, Thomas Beiert, Christopher J Fuegemann, Bernd K Fleischmann, Philipp Sasse.
Abstract
Electrical stimulation is the standard technique for exploring electrical behavior of heart muscle, but this approach has considerable technical limitations. Here we report expression of the light-activated cation channel channelrhodopsin-2 for light-induced stimulation of heart muscle in vitro and in mice. This method enabled precise localized stimulation and constant prolonged depolarization of cardiomyocytes and cardiac tissue resulting in alterations of pacemaking, Ca(2+) homeostasis, electrical coupling and arrhythmogenic spontaneous extrabeats.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20881965 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1512
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Methods ISSN: 1548-7091 Impact factor: 28.547