The relevance of non-excitable cells for cardiac pacemaker function

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 585, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 565-578

  Fahrenbach, John P ^a,b   Mejia Alvarez, Rafael ^c   Banach, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS NODE CONDUCTION VELOCITY; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GAP JUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NEWBORN; NON EXCITABLE CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINUS NODE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONNEXIN 43; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; MICE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SINOATRIAL NODE;

CONNEXIN 43;

EID: 36649020639     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.144121     Document Type: Article

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