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Guido Caluori1,2,3, Roberto Raiteri4, Mariateresa Tedesco4

  • 1Fakultni Nemocnice u Sv. Anny v Brne (FNUSA), International Clinical Research Centre (ICRC), Brno, Czech Republic. guido.cal87@gmail.com.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
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Keywords:
Atomic force microscopyCalcium imagingCardiac muscle mechanicsCardiomyocyteElectrophysiologyIn vitro modelscardiomyocyte mechanicsatomic force microscopyexcitation-contraction couplingsingle cell monitoring

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