Connections, connections, connexins: Towards systems biology paradigm of cardiac arrhythmia

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 949-951

  Efimov, Igor R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

EDITORIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VISION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 33751241738     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2006.09.003     Document Type: Editorial

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