Dynamic changes in conduction velocity and gap junction properties during development of pacing-induced heart failure

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Akar, Fadi G ^a   Nass, Robert D ^a   Hahn, Samuel ^a   Cingolani, Eugenio ^a   Shah, Manish ^a   Hesketh, Geoffrey G ^a   DiSilvestre, Deborah ^a   Tunin, Richard S ^a   Kass, David A ^a   Tomaselli, Gordon F ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Connexin; Electrical remodeling

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GAP JUNCTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART PACING; HEART PERFUSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPOLARIZATION; SINUS NODE CONDUCTION VELOCITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; DOWN-REGULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 34547909627     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00079.2007     Document Type: Article

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