title: An apparatus for applying a mechanical massage to rat hearts inside a wide-bore NMR spectrometer.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kushnir
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schwalb
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yaroslavsky
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Borman
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Uretzky
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Navon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006321:Heart; D006336:Heart Massage / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D051381:Rats