Gap junction heterogeneity as mechanism for electrophysiologically distinct properties across the ventricular wall

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Strom, Maria ^a   Wan, Xiaoping ^a   Poelzing, Steven ^a   Ficker, Eckhard ^a   Rosenbaum, David S ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Arrhythmia; Optical mappin

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; DOG; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNEXIN 43; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77749291944     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00887.2009     Document Type: Article

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