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Biological Pacemakers: Present and Future

Thassio Mesquita¹, Rodrigo Miguel-Dos-Santos¹, Eugenio Cingolani¹

¹Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Circulation Research

|March 28, 2024

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arrhythmias, cardiac calcium genetic therapy heart rate ion channels membrane potentials

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