Rapid electrical stimulation causes alterations in cardiac intercellular junction proteins of cardiomyocytes

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Nakashima, Tadamitsu ^a   Ohkusa, Tomoko ^a   Okamoto, Yoko ^a   Yoshida, Masaaki ^a   Lee, Jong Kook ^b   Mizukami, Yoichi ^c   Yano, Masafumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion junction; Connexin43; Gap junction; Intercellular junction; catenin

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; CONNEXIN 43; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38 INHIBITOR; OLMESARTAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ADHESION JUNCTION; CONNEXIN43; GAP JUNCTION; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTION; Β-CATENIN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84900544493     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00653.2013     Document Type: Article

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