Optical recording of impulse propagation in designer cultures cardiac tissue architectures inducing ultra-slow conduction

Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 173-179

  Rohr, Stephan ^a   Kléber, André G ^a   Kucera, Jan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0343962701     PISSN: 10501738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1050-1738(00)00017-7     Document Type: Review

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