Cell-cell junction remodeling in the heart: Possible role in cardiac conduction system function and arrhythmias?

Life Sciences

Volumn 90, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 313-321

  Mezzano, Valeria ^a   Sheikh, Farah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging heart; Anchoring cell cell junction; Arrhythmogenic heart disease; Cardiac arrhythmias; Cardiac conduction system; Desmosomes; Fascia adherens junction; Heart; Mouse models

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA CATENIN; CORTACTIN; COXSACKIE VIRUS AND ADENOVIRUS RECEPTOR; DESMOPLAKIN; GLYCOGEN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; VINCULIN;

AGING; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CELL ANCHORAGE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DESMOSOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART BEAT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINUS NODE;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; AGED; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CELL COMMUNICATION; DESMOSOMES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS;

EID: 84857362825     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: 18790631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2011.12.009     Document Type: Review

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