Does connexin expression in cultured neonatal rat myocytes reflect the pattern of the intact ventricle?
These results show that cultured ventricular myocytes retained typical features of the native neonatal rat ventricular myocardium with regard to their composition of gap junctions. This implicates that these cultures may serve as a good model for studying short-term and long-term regulation of cardiac gap junction channel expression and function.
The results confirmed our study hypothesis by showing that dental calculus indeed associated statistically with cardiac death due to infarction.