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Intercellular coupling has hitherto been scrutinized nearly in every myocardial structure and at many phylogenetic levels, the human heart being not excepted (Barr, 1969; Bonke, 1973; Bredikis et al., 1976, 1978; Bukauskas et al., 1977a, 1977b; De Mello, 1977; Johnson and Tille, 1961; Sakson et al., 1974; Seyama, 1976; Tanaka and Sasaki, 1966; Weidmann, 1970). The most popular approach in cell to cell coupling studies has been the measurement of passive electrical properties, viz. input resistance and space constant of electrotonic decay. To evaluate these parameters with regard to cell coupling theoretical models are needed which simulate the passive electrical properties and which take into account the actual build up of myocardial tissue as good as possible.
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Bukauskas, F.F., Gutman, A.M., Kisunas, K.J., Veteikis, R.P. (1982). Electrical Cell Coupling in Rabbit Sino Atrial Node and Atrium Experimental and Theoretical Evaluation. In: Bouman, L.N., Jongsma, H.J. (eds) Cardiac Rate and Rhythm. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7535-4_11
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