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A CLASSICAL method of organ culture has been established by the work of Dame Honor Fell. The techniques for maintaining mature mouse foetal hearts in organ culture were optimized by Wildenthal who found substances and mechanisms for prolonging their survival1–3 and used them to study some cardioactive drugs4.
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ARMSTRONG, S., LONGMORE, D. The Effects of Cardioactive Drugs on the Performance of Cultured Foetal Hearts. Nature 243, 350–352 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243350a0
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