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Wave Propagation in Myocardium

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I present an overview of cable theory for propagation in onedimensional excitable cables and some modifications necessary to account for the discrete cellular nature of myocardial cells and gap junctions. The modified cable theory is shown to agree quite well with a number of recent experiments on propagation in anisotropic tissue that are unexplained by the classical continuous theory.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    James P. Keener

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  1. Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada

    Leon Glass

  2. Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Peter Hunter

  3. Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science—Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Andrew McCulloch

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Keener, J.P. (1991). Wave Propagation in Myocardium. In: Glass, L., Hunter, P., McCulloch, A. (eds) Theory of Heart. Institute for Nonlinear Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3118-9_17

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