Cardiac fibroblast paracrine factors alter impulse conduction and ion channel expression of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 688-697

  Pedrotty, Dawn M ^a   Klinger, Rebecca Y ^a   Kirkton, Robert D ^a   Bursac, Nenad ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac fibroblasts; Electrophysiology; Ion channels; Paracrine action

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS;

EID: 68949155547     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvp164     Document Type: Article

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