Cell size and communication: Role in structural and electrical development and remodeling of the heart

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 500-515

  Spach, Madison S ^a   Heidlage, J Francis ^a   Barr, Roger C ^a   Dolber, Paul C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Cell geometry; Cell to cell transmission; Collagen; Conduction abnormalities; Gap junctions; Interstitium; Remodeling morphology; Two dimensional cellular models

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANISOTROPY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER MODEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 7744219599     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.06.010     Document Type: Article

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