detubulate

English

Etymology

de- +‎ tubulate

Verb

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

1. To remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).
   • 1999 August 1, Makoto Kawai, “Excitation-contraction coupling in rat ventricular myocytes after formamide-induced detubulation”, in Heart and Circulatory Physiology:

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

Related terms

• detubulation