Heart Cell Coupling and Impulse Propagation in Health and Disease

1 The Cardiac Syncytium.An Overview.- 2 Connexin Interacting Proteins.- 3 Cardiovascular Connexins:Molecular Composition and Biochemical Regulation.- 4 Heteromultimeric Gap Junction Channels: A Connection with Cardiac Physiology and Pathology.- 5 Intercellular Calcium Signaling In The Cardiovascular System.- 6 Biophysics of Gap Junction Channels.- 7 Phosphorylation of Connexin43 and Regulation Of Cardiac Gap Junction.- 8 The Sinoatrial Node.Gap Junction Distribution And Impulse Propagation.- 9 Inward and Outward Currents and Cardiac Discontinuous Conduction.- 10 Cellular Electrical Uncoupling During Ischemia.- 11 Cell Coupling and Impulse Propagation In the Failing Heart: The Role of the Renin Angiotensin System.- 12 Gap Junctions and Connexin Expression in Human Heart Disease.- 13 Ionic Channels and Fibrillation.- 14 Gap Junctions, Cardiac Excitability and Clinical Arrhythmias.