A Langendorff-like system to quantify cardiac pump function in adult zebrafish

• Main Authors: Hong Zhang (Author), Alexey V. Dvornikov (Author), Inken G. Huttner (Author), Xiao Ma (Author), Celine F. Santiago (Author), Diane Fatkin (Author), Xiaolei Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Zebrafish are increasingly used as a vertebrate model to study human cardiovascular disorders. Although heart structure and function are readily visualized in zebrafish embryos because of their optical transparency, the lack of effective tools for evaluating the hearts of older, nontransparent fish...