Coupling of cardiac electrical activity over extended distances by fibroblasts of cardiac origin

Circulation Research

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 421-428

  Gaudesius, Giedrius ^a   Miragoli, Michele ^a   Thomas, Stuart P ^b   Rohr, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac fibroblasts; Cell culture; Electrophysiology; Fibrosis; Gap junctions

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; FIBROBLAST; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; STRETCHING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROBLASTS; HEART VENTRICLES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0042232510     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000089258.40661.0C     Document Type: Article

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