Cardiac morphogenetic defects and conduction abnormalities in mice homozygously deficient for connexin40 and heterozygously deficient for connexin45

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 787-797

  Krüger, Olaf ^a   Maxeiner, Stephan ^a   Kim, Jung Sun ^b   van Rijen, Harold V M ^c   de Bakker, Jacques M T ^d   Eckardt, Dominik ^a   Tiemann, Klaus ^a   Lewalter, Thorsten ^a   Ghanem, Alexander ^a   Lüderitz, Bernd ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular septal defects; Cardiac malformations; Cardiac morphogenesis; Connexin40 deficient mice; Connexin45 deficient mice; Decreased conduction; Gap junction; Surface ECG, Holter ECG

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 45; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MORTALITY; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; P WAVE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QRS COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETAL HEART; FETAL VIABILITY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750373636     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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