Slow ventricular conduction in mice heterozygous for a connexin43 null mutation

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1991-1998

  Guerrero, Patricia A ^b   Schuessler, Richard B ^a   Davis, Lloyd M ^a   Beyer, Eric C ^a   Johnson, Carolyn M ^b   Yamada, Kathryn A ^b   Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac connexins; electrophysiology; gap junctions; impulse propagation; targeted gene deletion

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GENE DELETION; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX;

EID: 0030983063     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119367     Document Type: Article

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