Electrical interactions between a real ventricular cell and an anisotropic two-dimensional sheet of model cells

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 278, Issue 2 47-2, 2000, Pages

  Wang, Yang Gan ^a   Kumar, Rajiv ^a   Wagner, Mary B ^a   Wilders, Ronald ^b,c   Golod, David A ^a   Goolsby, William N ^a   Joyner, Ronald W ^a,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAP JUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

EID: 0034055319     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2000.278.2.h452     Document Type: Article

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