Gap Junctions in Cardiovascular Disease
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Gap junctions in cardiovascular disease.
Connexins, the protein molecules forming gap junction channels, are reduced in number or redistributed from intercalated disks to lateral cell borders in a variety of cardiac diseases. This "gap junction remodeling" is considered to be arrhythmogenic. Using a simple model of human ventricular myocardium, we found that quantitative remodeling data extracted from the literature gave rise to only ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Research
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-7330,1524-4571
DOI: 10.1161/01.res.86.12.1193