Anatomical and molecular mapping of the left and right ventricular His-Purkinje conduction networks

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 689-701

  Atkinson, Andrew ^a   Inada, Shin ^a   Li, Jue ^a   Tellez, James O ^a   Yanni, Joseph ^a   Sleiman, Rakan ^a   Allah, Eman Abd ^a   Anderson, Robert H ^a   Zhang, Henggui ^a   Boyett, Mark R ^a   Dobrzynski, Halina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bundle branches; Cardiac conduction system; Computer modelling; Ion channels; Purkinje fibres; Structure function relationships

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HIS BUNDLE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE FIBER; SINUS NODE; SINUS RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BUNDLE OF HIS; CONNEXINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; PURKINJE FIBERS; RABBITS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 80053245443     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: 10958584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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