An apparatus for applying a mechanical massage to rat hearts inside a wide-bore NMR spectrometer.
A device for applying mechanical massage to the isolated perfused rat heart inside a wide-bore NMR spectrometer was developed. This device exerts a squeezing pressure on a fibrillating heart placed inside a NMR spectrometer without interfering with the NMR measurements. It appears that the apparatus is important for obtaining reliable results in the postischemic reperfusion period.
Kushnir
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School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Schwalb
H
H
Yaroslavsky
E
E
Borman
J B
JB
Uretzky
G
G
Navon
G
G
D000818:Animals; D006321:Heart; D006336:Heart Massage / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D051381:Rats