Development of the Cardiac Conduction System

Abstract

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.