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Atrioventricular junctional tissue. Discrepancy between histological and electrophysiological characteristics

M A McGuire1, J M de Bakker, J T Vermeulen

  • 1Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam.

Circulation
|August 1, 1996
PubMed
Summary

Cells near the atrioventricular (AV) valves exhibit nodal-type action potentials and lack connexin-43, suggesting they form the slow pathway substrate for AV nodal echoes.

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