Modeling electrical activity of myocardial cells incorporating the effects of ephaptic coupling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 20935-20940

  Lin, Joyce ^a   Keener, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Extracellular conductivity; Microdomain effects

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; GAP JUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 78650448740     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010154107     Document Type: Article

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