Effects of chronic atrial fibrillation on gap junction distribution in human and rat atria

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 883-891

  Polontchouk, Lioudmila ^a   Haefliger, Jacques Antoine ^b   Ebelt, Berit ^a   Schaefer, Thomas ^c   Stuhlmann, Dominik ^c   Mehlhorn, Uwe ^c   Kuhn Regnier, Ferdinand ^c   De Vivie, E Rainer ^c   Dhein, Stefan ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034853494     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01443-7     Document Type: Article

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