A modular instrument for exploring the mechanics of cardiac myocytes.

@article{GarciaWebb2007AMI,
  title={A modular instrument for exploring the mechanics of cardiac myocytes.},
  author={M G Garcia-Webb and Andrew James Taberner and N. Cathy Hogan and Ian W. Hunter},
  journal={American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology},
  year={2007},
  volume={293 1},
  pages={
          H866-74
        }
}
The cardiac ventricular myocyte is a key experimental system for exploring the mechanical properties of the diseased and healthy heart. Millions of primary myocytes, which remain viable for 4-6 h, can be readily isolated from animal models. However, currently available instrumentation allows the mechanical properties of only a few physically loaded myocytes to be explored within 4-6 h. Here we describe a modular and inexpensive prototype instrument that could form the basis of an array of… 
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