Modulation of the cardiomyocyte contraction inside a hydrostatic pressure bioreactor: $\text{in vitro}$ verification of the Frank-Starling law

Lorenzo Fassina, Giovanni Magenes, Roberto Gimmelli +1

We have studied beating mouse cardiac syncytia $\text{in vitro}$ in order to assess the inotropic, ergotropic, and chronotropic effects of both increasing and decreasing hydrosta…