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Egert, U., Meyer, T. (2005). Heart on a Chip — Extracellular Multielectrode Recordings from Cardiac Myocytes in Vitro. In: Dhein, S., Mohr, F.W., Delmar, M. (eds) Practical Methods in Cardiovascular Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26574-0_22
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