Electrotonic loading of anisotropic cardiac monolayers by unexcitable cells depends on connexin type and expression level

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  McSpadden, Luke C ^a   Kirkton, Robert D ^a   Bursac, Nenad ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac fibroblasts; Cell culture; Gap junctions; Optical mapping; Passive cell

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS;

RATTUS;

EID: 68849125146     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00024.2009     Document Type: Article

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