Overexpression of Cx43 in cells of the myocardial scar: Correction of post-infarct arrhythmias through heterotypic cell-cell coupling

Abstract Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is the most common and potentially lethal complication following myocardial infarction (MI). Biological correction of the conduction inhomogeneity that underlies re-entry could be a major advance in infarction therapy. As minimal increases in conduction of infar...

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Main Authors: Wilhelm Roell, Alexandra M. Klein, Martin Breitbach, Torsten S. Becker, Ashish Parikh, Jane Lee, Katrin Zimmermann, Shaun Reining, Beth Gabris, Annika Ottersbach, Robert Doran, Britta Engelbrecht, Miriam Schiffer, Kenichi Kimura, Patricia Freitag, Esther Carls, Caroline Geisen, Georg D. Duerr, Philipp Sasse, Armin Welz, Alexander Pfeifer, Guy Salama, Michael Kotlikoff, Bernd K. Fleischmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25147-8