Remodeling of gap junctional channel function in epicardial border zone of healing canine infarcts

Circulation Research

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 437-443

  Yao, Jian An ^a   Hussain, Wajid ^b   Patel, Pravina ^b   Peters, Nicholas S ^b   Boyden, Penelope A ^a   Wit, Andrew L ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Gap junction; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; GAP JUNCTION; HEALING; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; STEADY STATE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; DOGS; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PERICARDIUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0037423821     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000059301.81035.06     Document Type: Article

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