Abstract：
:Ex vivo multicellular preparations are essential tools to study tissue physiology. Among them, the recent methodological and technological developments in living myocardial slices (LMS) are attracting increasing interest by the cardiac research field. Despite this, this research model remains poorly perceived and utilized by most research laboratories. Here, we provide a practical guide on how to use LMS to interrogate multiple aspects of cardiac function, structure and biochemistry. We discuss issues that should be considered to conduct successful experiments, including experimental design, sample preparation, data collection and analysis. We describe how laboratory setups can be adapted to accommodate and interrogate this multicellular research model. These adaptations can often be achieved at a reasonable cost with off-the-shelf components and operated reliably using well-established protocols and freely available software, which is essential to broaden the utilization of this method. We will also highlight how current measurements can be improved to further enhance data quality and reliability to ensure inter-laboratory reproducibility. Finally, we summarize the most promising biomedical applications and envision how living myocardial slices can lead to further breakthroughs.
journal_name
Basic Res Cardioljournal_title
Basic research in cardiologyauthors
Watson SA,Dendorfer A,Thum T,Perbellini Fdoi
10.1007/s00395-020-00822-ysubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-09-10 00:00:00pages
61issue
6eissn
0300-8428issn
1435-1803pii
10.1007/s00395-020-00822-yjournal_volume
115pub_type
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