ENGLISH

Heart Cell Communication in Health and Disease

By Walmor C. De Mello , Walmor C. De Mello (auth.) , Michiel J. Janse (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1998
ISBN
978-1-4613-7525-8, 978-1-4615-5525-4
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-5525-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10018102 bytes)
Series
Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine 200
Edition
1
Pages
295\300
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Cardiology

Description

In Heart Cell Communication in Health and Disease an extensive review of different aspects of heart cell communication is presented. The book starts with the fundamental concept that cardiac cells are communicated, and then proceeds to the role of gap junctions in heart development, the molecular biology of gap junctions, the biophysics of the intercellular channels, the control of junctional conductance and the influence of gap junctions on impulse propagation. This is the first time that a single volume has described cell communication in the normal heart and under different pathological conditions such as heart failure, coronary disease, myocardial ischemia and cardiac arrhythmias. In this way the process of cell communication is analyzed at different levels of complexity, providing the reader with a wide view of this field and its relevance to cardiology.

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