SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING CARDIOMYOCYTE BEATING, VIABILITY AND MORPHOLOGY AND FOR SCREENING FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL AGENTS WHICH MAY INDUCE CARDIOTOXICITY OR MODULATE CARDIOMYOCYTE FUNCTION

摘要

Extracellular recording devices with reference electrodes positioned in a cell free zone and methods of conducting extracellular recording. Parallel cell-substrate impedance monitoring and extracellular recording of excitable cells such as excitable cells, cardiomyocytes, and cardiomyocyte precursor cells using devices that switch between extracellular recording and impedance monitoring modes.