Functional and structural assessment of intercellular communication: Increased conduction velocity and enhanced connexin expression in dibutyryl cAMP-treated cultured cardiac myocytes

Circulation Research

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 174-183

  Darrow, Bruce J ^a   Fast, Vladimir G ^b   Kléber, André G ^b   Beyer, Eric C ^a   Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

connexin; gap junction; intercellular communication; ventricular myocyte; voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

EID: 0030017422     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.79.2.174     Document Type: Article

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