Cardiomyocyte fractional shortening, calcium transients Adult mouse left ventricular cardiomyocytes (LVCMs) were loaded with 0.5 M Fura2-AM and placed on the stage of an inverted microscope in a chamber containing normal physiological Tyrodes solution (150 mM NaCl, 5.4 mM KCl, 1.2 mM MgCl 2 , 10 mM glucose, 2 mM Na-pyruvate, 1.8 mM CaCl 2 , and 5 mM HEPES, pH 7.35) 100
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Animals mounted on 2% agarose pads and 20 mM sodium azide were imaged under the same parameters (63x objective, Z-stack and exposure time) on the Zeiss Axioimager Z1
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Clinical trials showed modest fat loss of roughly 2-3 kg over 12 weeks, and the compound was never approved as a pharmaceutical because efficacy did not meet the threshold for drug registration (Heffernan et al., 2001)
