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Averaging in vitro cardiac field potential recordings obtained with microelectrode arrays
Authors:Kujala Ville J  Jimenez Zaida C  Väisänen Juho  Tanskanen Jarno M A  Kerkelä Erja  Hyttinen Jari  Aalto-Setälä Katriina
Affiliation:a Regea - Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
b Department of Biomedical engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
c Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Abstract:Extracellular field potential (FP) recordings with microelectrode arrays (MEAs) from cardiomyocyte cultures offer a non-invasive way of studying the electrophysiological properties of these cells at the population level. Several studies have examined the FP properties of cardiomyocytes of various origins, including stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. This focus reflects growing importance and interest in the field of MEA. High-quality cardiac FP signals are often difficult to obtain, especially from stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte cultures, which represent an important new field in cardiac electrophysiology. One way to improve the quality of these recordings is to average the cardiac FP signals. To date, however, no studies have examined the effect of averaging on cardiac FP signals. We report here that cardiac FP averaging can yield higher-quality signals than original individual FPs, and therefore promise more accurate detection of different phases and analysis of the cardiac FP signal. Averaged signals improved the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and obtaining reliable averages required approximately 50 cardiac cycles. We therefore propose that routine cardiac FP averaging can serve as a tool to compare the effects of different experimental conditions or stimuli on the properties of cardiac FPs.
Keywords:Cardiomyocyte  Field potential  Averaging  Microelectrode array
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