Dependence of electrical coupling on mechanical coupling in cardiac myocytes: Insights gained from cardiomyopathies caused by defects in cell-cell connections

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1047, Issue , 2005, Pages 336-344

  Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carvajal syndrome; Gap junctions; Intercalated disks; Mechanical junctions; Naxos disease

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL PROTEIN; CONNEXIN 43; DESMOPLAKIN; PLAKOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; INCIDENCE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; SARCOLEMMA; SHEAR STRESS; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 23744463471     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1341.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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