Ephaptic coupling in cardiac myocytes

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 576-582

  Lin, Joyce ^a   Keener, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential propagation; cardiac electrophysiology; computational biology; coupling; mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL PROPAGATION; CABLE THEORY; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC MYOCYTES; CARDIAC TISSUES; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; EXTRACELLULAR; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIELD COUPLING; FIELD EFFECTS; GAP JUNCTIONS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LATERAL COUPLING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICRO-DOMAINS; PARAMETER VALUES; PROPAGATION SPEED; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES;

BIOINFORMATICS; BODY FLUIDS; COUPLINGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TISSUE;

HEART;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAP JUNCTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 84872563245     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2226720     Document Type: Article

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