An Approach for Improvement of Carbon Fiber Technique to Study Cardiac Cell Contractility

  • T. Myachina
  • , A. Khokhlova
  • , I. Antsygin
  • , O. Lookin

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Abstract

The technologies to study cardiac cell mechanics in near-physiological conditions are limited. Carbon fiber (CF) technique is a unique tool to study single cardiomyocyte contractility. However, the CF adhesion to a cell is limited and it is difficult to control CF sliding occurred due to inappropriate adhesion. In this study, we present a CF adhesion quality index - a linear coefficient (slope) derived from "end-diastolic cell length - end-diastolic sarcomere length" relationship. Potential applicability of this index is demonstrated on isolated rat and guinea pig ventricular cardiomyocytes. Further improvement of the approach may help to increase the quality of the experimental data obtained by CF technique.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012011
JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Volume350
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 14 2018
Event2017 International Conference on Nanomaterials and Biomaterials, ICNB 2017 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: Dec 11 2017Dec 13 2017

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