Development of the Cardiac Conduction System draws together contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of experts working on both basic and clinical aspects of cardiac development.
It features reviews of the structure and function of the developing PCS, discussion of the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating embryological development of this system and studies on the fundamental basis of PCS pathology.
Development of the Cardiac Conduction System also considers how novel therapeutic interventions based on understanding of the developmental biology of cardiac pacemaking and conduction tissues might ultimately impact on clinical medicine.
Contents:
- Chair's introduction
- The morphology of the cardiac conduction system
- Development of the cardiac conduction system: a matter of chamber development
- Mouse models for cardiac conduction system development
- Developmental transitions in cardiac conduction
- Gap junctional connexins in developing mouse cardiac conduction system
- His - Purkinje lineages and development
- The role of neural crest and epicardium-derived cells in conduction system formation
- Induction and patterning of the Purkinje fibre network
- The oldest, toughest cells in the heart
- Transcriptional regulation in the mouse atrioventricular conduction system
- Patterning of the mouse conduction system
- Clinical pathology of the cardiac conduction system
- Cardiac conduction and arrhythmia: insights from Nkx2.5 mutations in mouse and humans
- The genetic origin of atrioventricular conduction disturbance in humans
- Defects in cardiac conduction system lineages and malignant arrhythmias: developmental pathways and disease
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