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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2015

Potential effects of intrinsic heart pacemaker cell mechanisms on dysrhythmic cardiac action potential firing.

Yael Yaniv, Kenta Tsutsui, Edward G Lakatta

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yael YanivBiomedical Engineering Faculty, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel.
Kenta TsutsuiLaboratory of Cardiovascular Science, Biomedical Research Center, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health Baltimore, MD, USA.
Edward G LakattaLaboratory of Cardiovascular Science, Biomedical Research Center, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health Baltimore, MD, USA.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · IL

Funding

Beat to beat Ca2+-dependent regulation of pacemaker cell rate and rhythmZIAAG000598 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI LAKATTA, EDWARD · 2011 to 2025
$3.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The heart's regular electrical activity is initiated by specialized cardiac pacemaker cells residing in the sinoatrial node. The rate and rhythm of spontaneous action potential firing of sinoatrial node cells are regulated by stochastic mechanisms that determine the level of coupling of chemical to electrical clocks within cardiac pacemaker cells. This coupled-clock system is modulated by autonomic signaling from the brain via neurotransmitter release from the vagus and sympathetic nerves. Abnormalities in brain-heart clock connections or in any molecular clock activity within pacemaker cells lead to abnormalities in the beating rate and rhythm of the pacemaker tissue that initiates the cardiac impulse. Dysfunction of pacemaker tissue can lead to tachy-brady heart rate alternation or exit block that leads to long atrial pauses and increases susceptibility to other cardiac arrhythmia. Here we review evidence for the idea that disturbances in the intrinsic components of pacemaker cells may be implemented in arrhythmia induction in the heart.

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arrhythmiasatrial fibrillationcoupled-clock pacemaker systemheart rate variabilitysinus node disease

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PMID25755643
PMCPMC4337365
OpenAlexW1984439164

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