Backup Pacemakers Let the Heart Take a Thumping and Keep on Pumping (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Backup Pacemakers Let the Heart Take a Thumping and Keep on Pumping (3 of 3)

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High resolution immunostaining image of the human sinoatrial node. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 26, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Li; at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, and colleagues was titled, "Redundant and diverse intranodal pacemakers and conduction pathways protect the human sinoatrial node from failure."

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[Credit: Vadim Fedorov, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center]

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