detubulate

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verb

To remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).

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Meanings

verbdetubulate (third-person singular simple present detubulates, present participle detubulating, simple past and past participle detubulated)

present singular third person detubulates · participle present detubulating · participle past detubulated · past detubulated

  1. To remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).

    Formamide-induced osmotic shock has been used to detubulate isolated adult rat ventricular myocytes (i.e., disrupt the surface membrane-T tubule junction).

    1999 August 1, Makoto Kawai, “Excitation-contraction coupling in rat ventricular myocytes after formamide-induced detubulation”, in Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Origin

From de- + tubulate.

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Chicago

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