How do Pacemaker Cells in the Heart and Gut Generate Electrical Signals? (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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A single human pacemaker cell isolated from a healthy human heart spontaneously beating. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 13 June, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Tsutsui at National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, MD; and colleagues was titled, "A coupled-clock system drives the automaticity of human sinoatrial nodal pacemaker cells."

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K. Tsutsui <i>et al., Science Signaling </i>(2018)

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