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Calcium Signal Analysis in the Zebrafish Heart via Phase Matching of the Cardiac Cycle

Bio Protoc. 2024 May 20;14(10):e4989. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4989.

Authors

Affiliations

  • 1 Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • 2 Imperial College London, London, UK.
  • 3 Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan.

Abstract

Calcium signalling in the endocardium is critical for heart valve development. Calcium ion pulses in the endocardium are generated in response to mechanical forces due to blood flow and can be visualised in the beating zebrafish heart using a genetically encoded calcium indicator such as GCaMP7a. Analysing these pulses is challenging because of the rapid movement of the heart during heartbeat. This protocol outlines an imaging analysis method used to phase-match the cardiac cycle in single z-slice movies of the beating heart, allowing easy measurement of the calcium signal. Key features • Software to synchronise and analyse frames from movies of the beating heart corresponding to a user-defined phase of the cardiac cycle. • Software to measure the fluorescence intensity of the beating heart corresponding to a user-defined region of interest.

Keywords: Cardiac cycle; Heart valve development; Image analysis; Phase matching; Software development; Zebrafish embryos.

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