DOI: 10.1083/jcb.56.3.690. A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY ON THE NEXUS OF RAT CARDIAC MUSCLE

A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY ON THE NEXUS OF RAT CARDIAC MUSCLE

10.1083/jcb.56.3.690

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Rockefeller University Press

The Journal of Cell Biology (291)

Abstract

A morphometric study of the nexus of rat cardiac muscle was carried out. The nexus surface of one intercalated disk of one 15 µm thick fiber is found to range between 47 µm2 and 94 µm2, the latter value taking into account the maximal underestimation caused by tangential sectioning. Dividing the lower, minimal value by the surface of the observed subunits (90 Å periodicity), one obtains for one intercalated disk 6.7 x 105 subunits, each of them assumed to be permeated by a central pore. These pores are thought to be equivalent to intercellular channels in a recently proposed model. Taking our morphometric and recently reported physiological values, this model is examined for its consistency with a low resistance pathway between cardiac muscle cells.

Bibliography

Matter, A. (1973). A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY ON THE NEXUS OF RAT CARDIAC MUSCLE. The Journal of Cell Biology, 56(3), 690â696.

Authors 1

Alex Matter (first)

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Dates

Type	When
Created	21 years, 3 months ago (May 14, 2004, 6:01 p.m.)
Deposited	2 years, 1 month ago (July 24, 2023, 12:04 a.m.)
Indexed	1 year, 3 months ago (May 12, 2024, 4:58 p.m.)
Issued	52 years, 5 months ago (March 1, 1973)
Published	52 years, 5 months ago (March 1, 1973)
Published Online	52 years, 5 months ago (March 1, 1973)
Published Print	52 years, 5 months ago (March 1, 1973)

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BibTeX

@article{Matter_1973, title={A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY ON THE NEXUS OF RAT CARDIAC MUSCLE}, volume={56}, ISSN={0021-9525}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.56.3.690}, DOI={10.1083/jcb.56.3.690}, number={3}, journal={The Journal of Cell Biology}, publisher={Rockefeller University Press}, author={Matter, Alex}, year={1973}, month=mar, pages={690–696} }

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