Transverse propagation in an expanded PSpice model for cardiac muscle with gap-junction ion channels

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ramasamy, Lakshminarayanan ^a,b   Sperelakis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY EFFECTS; PROPAGATION VELOCITY; TRANSVERSE PROPAGATION;

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GAP JUNCTION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHANNEL GATING; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MICE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 33748329628     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-5-46     Document Type: Article

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