Functional imaging of the embryonic pacemaking and cardiac conduction system over the past 150 years: Technologies to overcome the challenges

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 980-989

  Rothenberg, Florence ^a,b   Efimov, Igor R ^a   Watanabe, Michiko ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular junction; Cardiomyocytes; Conduction system; His Purkinje system; Optical mapping; Purkinje fibers; Voltage sensitive dyes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FLUORESCENT DYE;

CHICK EMBRYO; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAP JUNCTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; RABBIT; REPORTER GENE; SINUS NODE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EMBRYO; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 4844223608     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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