A regional gradient of cardiac intrinsic rhythmicity depicted in embryonic cultured multiple hearts

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 437, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-69

  Sakai, Tetsuro ^a   Yada, Toshihiko ^a,b   Hirota, Akihiko ^a,c   Komuro, Hitoshi ^a,d   Kamino, Kohtaro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacemaker; Cultured multiple heart; Embryonic heart; Intrinsic rhythmicity; Optical recording; Regional gradient; Voltage sensitive dye; Whole embryo culture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; COLORING AGENTS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HEART RATE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; RHODANINE; THIAZOLIDINES;

EID: 0032446951     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050747     Document Type: Article

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