Development of the cardiac pacemaking and conduction system

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-57

  Gourdie, Robert G ^a   Harris, Brett S ^a,b   Bond, Jaqueline ^a   Justus, Charles ^a   Hewett, Kenneth W ^a   O'Brien, Terrence X ^a,b   Thompson, Robert P ^a   Sedmera, David ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYOLOGY; HEART BEAT; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART PACING; HIS BUNDLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ENDOTHELIN 1; FETOPROTEIN;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHICK EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIN-1; ENDOTHELIUM; FETAL PROTEINS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; PURKINJE FIBERS; RATS;

EID: 0037899284     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.10008     Document Type: Review

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