Contact: Dr. Andreas Battenberg
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Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Improved Langendorff Heart Apparatus

Caption: With their improved Langendorff heart, the researchers from Technische Universitaet Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen have now for the first time developed a measurement setup that can be used to analyze the effects of nanoparticles on a complete, intact organ without being influenced by the reactions of other organs.

Credit: Andreas Stampfl, by curtesy of ACS

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