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Relative position of the atrioventricular canal determines the electrical activation of developing reptile ventricles
Author(s) -
Martina Gregorovičová,
David Sedmera,
Bjarke Jensen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of experimental biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.367
H-Index - 185
eISSN - 1477-9145
pISSN - 0022-0949
DOI - 10.1242/jeb.178400
Subject(s) - atrioventricular canal , position (finance) , anatomy , atrioventricular valve , atrioventricular cushions , biology , cardiology , medicine , business , ventricle , heart disease , finance
Squamate reptiles appear to lack the specialized His/Purkinje system that enables the cardiac ventricle to be activated from apex to base as in mammals and birds. Instead, activation may simply spread from where the atrioventricular canal connects to the base. Gja5, which encodes Cx40 that allows fast impulse propagation, was expressed throughout the ventricles of developing anole lizards. Activation was optically recorded in developing corn snake and central bearded dragon. Early embryonic ventricles were broad in shape, and activation propagated from the base to the right. Elongated ventricles of later stages were activated from base to apex. Before hatching, the snake ventricle developed a cranial extension on the left and activation now propagated from the base to the caudal apex and the cranial extension. In squamate reptiles, the pattern of electrical activation of the cardiac ventricle is dependent the position of the atrioventricular canal and the shape of the ventricle.

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