Voltage-Dependent Potassium Current Recording on H9c2 Cardiomyocytes via the Whole-Cell Patch-Clamp TechniqueHong Jiang *1, Yating Zhang *1, Ya Hou 1, Lijun Li 2, Sanyin Zhang 3,4, Yi Zhang 5, Xianli Meng 1,3,4, Xiaobo Wang 4
1State Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2Chengdu Techman Instrument Co., Ltd., 3Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 4Research Institute of Integrated TCM & Western Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 5School of Ethnic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The present protocol describes an efficient method for the real-time and dynamic acquisition of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel currents in H9c2 cardiomyocytes using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique.