Anisotropic conduction block and reentry in neonatal rat ventricular myocyte monolayers

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  De Diego, Carlos ^a   Chen, Fuhua ^a   Xie, Yuanfang ^a   Pai, Rakesh K ^a   Slavin, Leonid ^a   Parker, John ^a   Lamp, Scott T ^a   Qu, Zhilin ^a   Weiss, James N ^a   Valderrábano, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Myocyte monolayers; Optical mapping; Reentry

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ETHYLENE GLYCOL 1,2 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYL) ETHER N,N,N',N' TETRAACETIC ACID; HEPTANOL; SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; NERVE BLOCK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANISOTROPY; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 78651264345     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00758.2009     Document Type: Article

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