© 2000 by European Society of Cardiology
Copyright © 2000, European Society of Cardiology
The Calcium Paradox
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Much of the present knowledge of the heart's physiology is derived from experiments with isolated perfused hearts. Usually based on the technique of Langendorff. It was, and largely still is, a logic defying problem that the survival of an isolated heart in a perfusion apparatus