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Inward and Outward Currents and Cardiac Discontinuous Conduction

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Heart Cell Coupling and Impulse Propagation in Health and Disease

Part of the book series: Basic Science for the Cardiologist ((BASC,volume 12))

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In the normal heart, most of the individual cardiac cells are well coupled to adjacent cells through gap junctions. Because of this, the myocardium is referred to as an electrical syncytium such that excitation occurring at any location is able to spread throughout all parts of the heart which are not refractory to stimulation. The process of action potential propagation in the heart has generally been considered as a multi-dimensional analog of the continuous one-dimensional propagation observed in unmyelinated nerve fibers.

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Wagner, M.B., Joyner, R.W. (2002). Inward and Outward Currents and Cardiac Discontinuous Conduction. In: Heart Cell Coupling and Impulse Propagation in Health and Disease. Basic Science for the Cardiologist, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1155-7_9

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