Transverse propagation in an expanded PSpice model for cardiac muscle with gap-junction ion channels
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Transverse propagation in an expanded PSpice model for cardiac muscle with gap-junction ion channels
Transverse propagation was previously found to occur in a two-dimensional model of cardiac muscle using the PSpice software program for electronic circuit design and analysis. Longitudinal propagation within each chain, and transverse propagation between parallel chains, occurred even when there were no gap-junction (g-j) channels inserted between the simulated myocardial cells either longitudi...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioMedical Engineering OnLine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1475-925X
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925x-5-46