Electromechanical Coupling between Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle
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Electromechanical Coupling between Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle
Skeletal myoblasts form grafts of mature muscle in injured hearts, and these grafts contract when exogenously stimulated. It is not known, however, whether cardiac muscle can form electromechanical junctions with skeletal muscle and induce its synchronous contraction. Here, we report that undifferentiated rat skeletal myoblasts expressed N-cadherin and connexin43, major adhesion and gap junctio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.3.731