Contractile Skeletal Muscle Cells Cultured with a Conducting Soft Wire for Effective, Selective Stimulation.
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SUBMITTER: Nagamine K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797109 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
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Contractile Skeletal Muscle Cells Cultured with a Conducting Soft Wire for Effective, Selective Stimulation.
Nagamine Kuniaki K Sato Hirotaka H Kai Hiroyuki H Kaji Hirokazu H Kanzaki Makoto M Nishizawa Matsuhiko M
Scientific reports 20180202 1
Contractile skeletal muscle cells were cultured so as to wrap around an electrode wire to enable their selective stimulation even when they were co-cultured with other electrically-excitable cells. Since the electrode wire was composed of the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and polyurethane (PU), which is soft and highly capacitive (~10 mF cm<sup>-2</sup>), non-faradaic electrical stimulation with charge/discharge currents could be applied to the surrounding cells wit ...[more]
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