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Gap Junction Structure in Coupled and Uncoupled Conditions

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Cardiac Rate and Rhythm

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 17))

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Activities such as heart contraction, uterus contractures at labor, simultaneous firing of groups of neurons, as well as a variety of cooperative cellular functions would be ineffective in the absence of a system for direct cell-to-cell communication. This system, known as cell coupling, relies on the presence of specialized cell junctions called gap junctions, nexuses, maculae communicantes, coupling junctions, etc. (Peracchia, 1980).

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Peracchia, C. (1982). Gap Junction Structure in Coupled and Uncoupled Conditions. 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_12

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