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Backup Pacemakers Let the Heart Take a Thumping and Keep on Pumping (1 of 3)

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Backup Pacemakers Let the Heart Take a Thumping and Keep on Pumping (1 of 3)

image: Scientists mapped out the pacemaker cells in human hearts.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: N. Li et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017)


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