Abnormalities in Gap Junctions and Ca2+ Dynamics in Cardiomyocytes at the Border Zone of Myocardial Infarcts

Cell Communication and Adhesion

Volumn 8, Issue 42100, 2001, Pages 335-338

  Oyamada, Masahito ^a   Tsujii, Eiji ^a   Tanaka, Hideo ^a   Matsushita, Tsutomu ^a   Takamatsu, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Ca2+ overload; Ca2+ wave; confocal microscopy; connexin43

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALCIUM ION; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT DYE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL JUNCTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART STRESS; ION TRANSPORT; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ACTINS; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; XANTHENES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035750835     PISSN: 15419061     EISSN: 15435180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15419060109080749     Document Type: Article

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