Analysis of Contractile Function of Permeabilized Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Multicellular Heart Tissue

Background: Many forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) show an increased myofilament Ca2+ sensitivity. This observation has been mainly made in HCM mouse models, myofilament systems, and cardiomyocytes. Studies of multicellular tissues from patients with different HCM-associated gene mutations are scarce. We investigated Ca2+ sensitivity in multicellular cardiac muscle strips of HCM patients. We furthermore evaluated the use of...