Conduction abnormality in gap junction protein connexin45-deficient embryonic stem cell-derived cardiac myocytes

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

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 973-979

  Egashira, Katsuko ^a   Nishii, Kiyomasa ^a   Nakamura, Kei Ichiro ^a   Kumai, Madoka ^b   Morimoto, Sachio ^a   Shibata, Yosaburo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac muscle; Connexin45; Embryonic stem cell; Gap junction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CONNEXIN 45; FURA 2;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; FLUORESCENCE; GAP JUNCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PULSE RATE; STEM CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MICE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 4844227594     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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