Genetically Engineered Excitable Cardiac Myofibroblasts Coupled to Cardiomyocytes Rescue Normal Propagation and Reduce Arrhythmia Complexity in Heterocellular Monolayers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Hou, Luqia ^a   Hu, Bin ^a   Jalife, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CONNEXIN 43; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOFIBROBLASTS; NAV1.5 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS;

EID: 84873501839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055400     Document Type: Article

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