Electrical coupling and propagation in engineered ventricular myocardium with heterogeneous expression of connexin43

Circulation Research

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1445-1453

  Beauchamp, Philippe ^a   Desplantez, Thomas ^a   McCain, Megan L ^b   Li, Weihui ^c   Asimaki, Angeliki ^c   Rigoli, Ghislaine ^a   Parker, Kevin Kit ^b   Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^c   Kleber, Andre G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular coupling; Cx43 genotypes; myocardium; propagation

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GAP JUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEART VENTRICLES; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84861629597     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.111.259705     Document Type: Article

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