Nature, significance, and mechanisms of electrical heterogeneities in ventricle

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

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1010-1017

  Poelzing, Steven ^a,b   Rosenbaum, David S ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential duration; Electrical coupling; Gap junctions; M cell

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; ION CHANNEL; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL INTERACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EPICARDIUM; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPOLARIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CONNEXIN 43; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4844229636     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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