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Electrical activity in cardiac mutant axolotl hearts

✍ Scribed by Epstein, Miles L. ;Lemanski, Larry F.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1980
Tongue
English
Weight
523 KB
Volume
211
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-104X

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Electrical recordings from the hearts of both cardiac lethal mutant and normal embryos showed the presence of action potentials conducted over the heart tube. Ionic coupling and gap junctions also were observed in both. These results suggest that the absence of heart function in mutant embryos does not result from a defect in electrical activity.

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