Volume 51 Issue 2, February 2022

Pigs got rhythm

Pigs and humans share a vast range of characteristics, including heart anatomy, cardiac electrophysiological properties and hemodynamics, which make pigs a well suited model to study cardiovascular diseases. In a new protocol, Schüttler, Tomsits, Bleyer et al. provide a practical guide to set up pig models for heart disease research, including cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis studies.

See Schüttler et al.

ECG image: Dominik Schüttler and Sebastian Clauss. Illustration and cover design: Marina Spence