Electric field interactions between closely abutting excitable cells.
This review article summarizes some of the electrophysical evidence and morphological evidence against the hypothesis that the myocytes of cardiac muscles and visceral smooth muscles are profusely interconnected by low-resistance pathways (e.g., tunnels or gap-junction channels), which would give ri...
| Published in: | IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology magazine 21, 1 (2002). |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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