Impulse propagation in synthetic strands of neonatal cardiac myocytes with genetically reduced levels of connexin43

Circulation Research

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1209-1216

  Thomas, Stuart P ^a   Kucera, Jan P ^c   Bircher Lehmann, Lilly ^a   Rudy, Yoram ^c   Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^b   Kléber, André G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Connexin43 expression; Neonatal mouse cardiomyocytes; Synthetic cardiac strands

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOTYPE; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROELECTRODE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HETEROZYGOTE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARRHYTHMIA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNEXIN 43; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROZYGOTE; KINETICS; MICE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 0037704231     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000074916.41221.EA     Document Type: Article

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