Cardiac myocyte-nonmyocyte electrotonic coupling: Implications for ventricular arrhythmogenesis

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 233-235

  Kohl, Peter ^a   Camelliti, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CONNEXIN 43; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SIMVASTATIN;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; DEFIBRILLATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GAP JUNCTION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART EXCITATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 33846491723     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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