Optical mapping of atrioventricular node reveals a conduction barrier between atrial and nodal cells

American Journal of Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages

  Salama, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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