Optical mapping of spontaneous electrical activity and functional organization of pacemaking area in the early embryonic chick heart

Kohtaro Kamino; Tetsuro Sakai; Akihiko Hirota

doi:10.1117/12.176579

26 May 1994 Optical mapping of spontaneous electrical activity and functional organization of pacemaking area in the early embryonic chick heart

Kohtaro Kamino, Tetsuro Sakai, Akihiko Hirota

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Proceedings Volume 2132, Clinical Applications of Modern Imaging Technology II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176579
Event: OE/LASE '94, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Using a multiple-site optical recording system and a voltage-sensitive merocyanine-rhodanine dye, we have been able to monitor, for the first time, spontaneous electrical activity in pre- fused cardiac primordia in 6- and early 7-somite chick embryos.

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Kohtaro Kamino, Tetsuro Sakai, and Akihiko Hirota "Optical mapping of spontaneous electrical activity and functional organization of pacemaking area in the early embryonic chick heart", Proc. SPIE 2132, Clinical Applications of Modern Imaging Technology II, (26 May 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176579

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