The heart is a natural pump made of muscle tissue, and, like every muscle, it needs energy to function. The heart’s pumping action is regulated by an electrical conduction system that ...

Research Highlights: Electrocardiogram (ECG) measures taken after the Jan. 2022 pig-to-human heart transplant found significantly different electrical conduction characteristics compared to those ...

The sinoatrial (SA) node is the natural pacemaker of the heart. It generates electrical impulses that cause the heart’s chambers to contract, setting the heart rate. The SA node typically ...

The conduction system, also called the cardiac electrical system, helps the heart contract, thus pumping blood through the body. It is made up of several different parts, including a sinoatrial ...

This electrical conduction is what doctors are looking at when they are staring at the heart monitor. Generally speaking, this impulse creates a squeeze that actually creates your pulse.

The study included 7,575 individuals (average age, 47 years; 54 percent women) from the community-based Framingham Heart Study who underwent electrocardiography between 1968-1974, with follow-up ...

Journal Reference: Hulsmans, Clauss, and Xiao et al. Macrophages Facilitate Electrical Conduction in the Heart. Cell, April 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.050 ...

Further study on these cells may steer researchers to new therapies, and it may explain why anti-inflammatory drugs can sometimes help with heart disease. Cell, 2017.

Over an average five-year period, 1,114 of the 21,004 participants (5.3 percent) still developed conduction disease, including 389 with a delay or blockage of electrical impulses to the left side of ...

DNA sequence variations linked to electrical signal conduction in the heart Date: November 15, 2010 Source: NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine Summary: Scientists ...