Basic cardiac development: The heart and its electrical components

Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the Vertebrate Heart

Volumn 9781461433873, Issue , 2012, Pages 177-206

  Wong, L Y E ^a   Moorman, A F ^a   Barnett, P ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3387-3_8     Document Type: Chapter

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