Progressive increase in conduction velocity across human mesenchymal stem cells is mediated by enhanced electrical coupling

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 282-291

  Pijnappels, Daniël A ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a   van Tuyn, John ^a   Ypey, Dirk L ^a   de Vries, Antoine A F ^a   van der Wall, Ernst E ^a   van der Laarse, Arnoud ^a   Atsma, Douwe E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conduction; Conduction block; Connexins; Gap junctions; Myocytes; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

1,1' DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE; CONNEXIN 43; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CASE REPORT; CELL LABELING; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HEART BEAT; HEART CELL CULTURE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART SINOATRIAL BLOCK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; ION SELECTIVE ELECTRODE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARBENOXOLONE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNEXIN 43; DIURETICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749452234     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardiores.2006.07.016     Document Type: Article

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