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Formation of Cell Junctions Between Grafted and Host Cardiomyocytes at the Border Zone of Rat Myocardial Infarction

Takashi Matsushita, Masahito Oyamada, Hirofumi Kurata, Shinsuke Masuda, Akiyuki Takahashi, Takeshi Emmoto, Isao Shiraishi, Yukio Wada, Takahiro Oka, Tetsuro Takamatsu

Circulation · 1999 · 50 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

These findings indicate that grafted cardiomyocytes foster electrical pathways with host counterparts through the gap junction and suggest that the environment in infarcted hearts could influence the localization of gap junctions, desmosomes, and adherens junctions.

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