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Endomyocardial Biopsies: A New Approach for Studying the Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Human Ventricular Myocardium

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Abstract

The novel endomyocardial biopsy approach described here could facilitate the study of some human pathologies for which specimens are currently unavailable. Electrical and mechanical characteristics such as rate responses, effect of extracellular calcium concentration changes and β-adrenergic tone were similar to those determined for other human ventricular tissues, indicating that endomyocardial biopsies are suitable for physiological studies. This new source of cardiac tissues should facilitate the investigation of cellular mechanisms involved in the development of previously inaccessible human diseases.

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