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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:04Setup for Dissection
- 02:35Prepare Zebrafish and Heart Dissection
- 04:26Prepare Heart for Downstream Applications
- 05:26Results: Zebrafish Heart Recovery
- 06:31Conclusion
Use of zebrafish for cardiovascular research is expanding towards research on adult hearts. For these applications, quick and simple isolation of cardiac tissues is key to avoid post-mortem changes and to obtain an adequate number of samples. Here, we describe a fast and reproducible method for dissecting adult zebrafish hearts.
