Mechanical Coupling Between Myofibroblasts and Cardiomyocytes Slows Electric Conduction in Fibrotic Cell Monolayers

Blebbistatin inhibits contraction and accelerates migration in mouse hepatic stellate cells

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Cardiac fibroblast paracrine factors alter impulse conduction and ion channel expression of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes

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Cardiac Fibroblast

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Structural and Molecular Mechanisms of Gap Junction Remodeling in Epicardial Border Zone Myocytes following Myocardial Infarction

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Cx43 contributes to TGF-β signaling to regulate differentiation of cardiac fibroblasts into myofibroblasts

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Myofibroblasts in diseased hearts: New players in cardiac arrhythmias?

(2009) Stephan Rohr   HEART RHYTHM

Effects of fibroblast-myocyte coupling on cardiac conduction and vulnerability to reentry: A computational study

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Molecular and functional characterization of a new potassium conductance in mouse ventricular fibroblasts

(2009) Najate Benamer et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

Cardiac cell–cell junctions in health and disease: Electrical versus mechanical coupling

(2009) Maartje Noorman et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

Myocardial remodeling after infarction: the role of myofibroblasts

(2009) Susanne W. M. van den Borne et al.   Nature Reviews Cardiology

Characterization of Multiple Ion Channels in Cultured Human Cardiac Fibroblasts

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Structural coupling of cardiomyocytes and noncardiomyocytes: quantitative comparisons using a novel micropatterned cell pair assay

(2008) Dawn M. Pedrotty et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Loading effect of fibroblast-myocyte coupling on resting potential, impulse propagation, and repolarization: insights from a microstructure model

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Myofibroblast communication is controlled by intercellular mechanical coupling

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Magnetic microposts for mechanical stimulation of biological cells: Fabrication, characterization, and analysis

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