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A large number of techniques have been developed for the enzymatic isolation of many types of cells since the first trials around 1970 (hepatocytes: Berry and Friend, 1969; cardiac myocytes: Vahouny et al., 1970; smooth muscle cells: Bagby et al., 1971). Most of the procedures have been designed to meet the needs of biochemical investigations. For electrophysiologists, enzymatic dissociation is of interest if the cells are not easily accessible otherwise or if they are coupled to a complex electrical network, as, for example, in heart. Enzymatically isolated cells also turned out to be very well suited for the patch clamp technique. They have a cell surface stripped of connective tissue, a prerequisite for the formation of a gigaseal between the current-recording pipette and the cell membrane (Neher, 1982).
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Trube, G. (1983). Enzymatic Dispersion of Heart and Other Tissues. In: Sakmann, B., Neher, E. (eds) Single-Channel Recording. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7858-1_4
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