Cleft diving: Looking in the extracellular matrix for answers to atrial arrhythmias

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 950-951

  Duffy, Heather S ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRILLIN 1; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; INTEGRIN; ION CHANNEL; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; DISEASE MODEL; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250751909     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.03.039     Document Type: Editorial

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