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Article: Reports summarize physiology study results from University of Manchester.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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According to a study from Manchester, the United Kingdom, "The cardiac conduction system (CCS), consisting of the sino-atrial node, atrioventricular node and His-Purkinje system, is responsible for the initiation and co-ordination of the heart beat. In the last decade, our understanding of the CCS has been transformed."
"Immunohistochemistry, used in conjunction with anatomical techniques, has transformed our understanding of its anatomy; arguably, we now understand the position of the sino-atrial node (not the same as in medical textbooks), and our new understanding of the atrioventricular node anatomy means that we can compute its physiological and ...