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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology magazine 21, 1 (2002).
1. Verfasser:	Sperelakis, N.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Schlagworte:	Action potential. Capacitive coupling. Cardiac muscles. Closely abutting excitable cells. Cultured heart cell monolayers. Discontinuous staircase propagation. Electric field interactions. Electrophysical evidence. Ephaptic transmission. Gap-junction channels. Low-resistance pathways. Morphological evidence. Myocardial cells. Myocytes. Negative cleft potential. Prejunctional membrane. Tunnels.