Development of the Cardiac Conduction System (eBook)

Derek J. Chadwick and Jamie A. Goode are editors for Development of the Cardiac Conduction System and other scientific titles.

Chair's Introduction (R. Marwald).

The morphology of the cardiac condunction system (R. Anderson
and S. Ho).

Development of the cardiac conduction system: a matter of
chamber development (A. Moorman and V. Crhistoffels).

Mouse models for cardiac conduction system development (A.
Wessels, et al.).

Developmental transitions in cardiac conduction (M. Watanabe,
et al.).

Gap junctional connexins in developing mouse cardiac conduction
system (L. Miquerol, et al.).

His-Purkinje lineages and development (R. Gourdie, et
al.).

The role of neural crest and epicardium-derived cells in
conduction system formation (A. Gittenberger-de Groot, et
al.).

Induction and patterning of the Purkinje fibre network (T.
Mikawa, et al.).

The oldest, toughest cells in the heart (R. Thompson, et
al.).

Transcriptional regulation in the mouse atrioventricular
conduction system (A. Edwards, et al.).

Pattterning of the mouse conduction system (S. Rentschler, et
al.).

Clinical pathology of the cardiac conduction system (S. Ho).

Cardiac conduction and arrhythmia: insights from Nkx2:5
mutations in mouse and humans (P. Jay, et al.).

The genetic origin of atrio ventricular conduction disturbance
in humans (D. Benson).

Defects in cardiac conduction system lineages and malignant
arrhythmias: developmental pathways and disease (T. St. Armand et
al).

Final general discussion.

Index of contributors.

Subject index.