Remodeling of cardiac passive electrical properties and susceptibility to ventricular and atrial arrhythmias

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Dhein, Stefan ^a   Seidel, Thomas ^b   Salameh, Aida ^c   Jozwiak, Joanna ^a   Hagen, Anja ^a   Kostelka, Martin ^d   Hindricks, Gerd ^a   Mohr, Friedrich Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d Clinic for Cardiology Heart Center Leipzig University Leipzig ^*

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Cable theory; Cardiac tissue; Connexin; Electrical propagation; Gap junction; Inhomogeneity; Passive electrical properties

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEIN ZO1;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FIBROBLAST; GAP JUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PURKINJE FIBER; REVIEW; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84908384392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00424     Document Type: Review

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