Connexin40 imparts conduction heterogeneity to atrial tissue

Circulation Research

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1001-1008

  Leaf, David E ^a   Feig, Jonathan E ^a   Vasquez, Carolina ^a   Riva, Pamela L ^a   Yu, Cindy ^a   Lader, Joshua M ^a   Kontogeorgis, Andrianos ^b   Baron, Elvera L ^c   Peters, Nicholas S ^b   Fisher, Edward A ^a   Gutstein, David E ^a   Morley, Gregory E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Conduction velocity; Cx40; Optical mapping; Sinus node

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATED HEART; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS NODE; SINUS RHYTHM; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PACING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE MUTANT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MYOCARDIUM; RNA, MESSENGER; SINOATRIAL NODE;

EID: 55449124569     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.107.168997     Document Type: Article

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