Recreating the biological pacemaker

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

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1046-1052

  Rosen, Michael R ^a,b   Robinson, Richard B ^a   Brink, Peter ^b   Cohen, Ira S ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmias; HCN channels; Heart block; Pacemaker current; Sinoatrial node

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; GENE PRODUCT; ION CHANNEL; MUSCLE PROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EMBRYO CELL; GENE THERAPY; HEART BLOCK; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACEMAKER; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADULT; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DOGS; GENE THERAPY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PLASMIDS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 4844226454     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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