Irregular Conduction in Fibrotic Tissue (VIDEO)

Washington University in St. Louis

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Here an electrical impulse propagating erratically through a highly fibrotic artificial tissue is made visible with a voltage-sensitive dye. The image was taken on an Elson lab tissue construct by members of the Efimov lab.

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