Mechanistic inquiry into the role of tissue remodeling in fibrotic lesions in human atrial fibrillation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2764-2773

  McDowell, Kathleen S ^a   Vadakkumpadan, Fijoy ^a   Blake, Robert ^a   Blauer, Joshua ^b   Plank, Gernot ^c   Macleod, Rob S ^b   Trayanova, Natalia A ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MYOFIBROBLAST; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL REMODELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOFIBROBLASTS; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84879242630     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.05.025     Document Type: Article

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