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Backup Pacemakers Let the Heart Take a Thumping and Keep on Pumping (2 of 3)

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Backup Pacemakers Let the Heart Take a Thumping and Keep on Pumping (2 of 3)

video: A movie showing a 3-D reconstruction 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." view more 

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


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