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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2020

Development of the Cardiac Conduction System.

Samadrita Bhattacharyya, Nikhil V Munshi

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samadrita BhattacharyyaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology.
Nikhil V MunshiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology.
Southwestern Medical Center

Funding

Diversity Supplement- Analysis of transcriptional and chromatin accessibility during atrioventricular node formatR01HL136604 · NHLBI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MUNSHI, NIKHIL VILAS · 2017 to 2021
$2.1M
Exploring Mechanisms of Cardiac Pacemaker Cell Fate DeterminationR01HL151650 · NHLBI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MUNSHI, NIKHIL VILAS · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
Diversity Supplement - Magid MohamedR03HL133642 · NHLBI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MUNSHI, NIKHIL VILAS · 2016 to 2017
$284k
Defining process control parameters for cardiac reprogrammingR03HL135217 · NHLBI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MUNSHI, NIKHIL VILAS · 2016 to 2017
$162k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL136604NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL151650NHLBI NIH HHS R03 HL133642NHLBI NIH HHS R03 HL135217
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cardiac conduction system initiates and propagates each heartbeat. Specialized conducting cells are a well-conserved phenomenon across vertebrate evolution, although mammalian and avian species harbor specific components unique to organisms with four-chamber hearts. Early histological studies in mammals provided evidence for a dominant pacemaker within the right atrium and clarified the existence of the specialized muscular axis responsible for atrioventricular conduction. Building on these seminal observations, contemporary genetic techniques in a multitude of model organisms has characterized the developmental ontogeny, gene regulatory networks, and functional importance of individual anatomical compartments within the cardiac conduction system. This review describes in detail the transcriptional and regulatory networks that act during cardiac conduction system development and homeostasis with a particular emphasis on networks implicated in human electrical variation by large genome-wide association studies. We conclude with a discussion of the clinical implications of these studies and describe some future directions.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutonomic Nervous SystemElectrocardiographyGap JunctionsHeart Conduction SystemHumans

Identifiers

PMID31988140
PMCPMC7706568
OpenAlexW3003623761

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