
The Cardiac Conduction System
Evolution, Development, and Therapeutic Potential
Academic Press
Will be published approx. on 1. March 2026
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-443-24142-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Cardiac Conduction System: Evolution, Development, and Therapeutic Potential, the latest release in the Hot Topics in Physiology series, provides the reader a thorough and comprehensive review of this intricate system. The book covers conventional topics: anatomy, electrophysiology, and key cellular characteristics, as well as emerging topics: patient specific computer modelling, induced pluripotent stem cells, and in vivo editing as state-of-the-art treatment strategy. Given the exhaustive coverage of topics, this book is "go-to reference" for the cardiac conduction system for years to come.
This volume was published in association with the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS). It is an ideal reference for academics and researchers in anatomy, physiology, cardiology, electrophysiology, biomedical engineering and medical education at Undergrad, Masters, PhD, and Post-Doc levels.
This volume was published in association with the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS). It is an ideal reference for academics and researchers in anatomy, physiology, cardiology, electrophysiology, biomedical engineering and medical education at Undergrad, Masters, PhD, and Post-Doc levels.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-24142-0 (9780443241420)
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Bjarke Jensen | Bastiaan Boukens
The Cardiac Conduction System
Evolution, Development, and Therapeutic Potential
E-Book
03/2026
Elsevier
€153.99
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Persons
Dr. Jensen is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Medical Biology, at the University of Amsterdam. His research focus is cardiac evolution from fish to man. He also studies expression of genes, development, anatomy, and physiology. He is interested in the evolutional conservation of the building plan of the heart, in the rich variation of cardiac chambers, septa, and architecture. Dr. Bas Boukens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at Maastricht University. He has researched and studied arrhythmogenic remodeling in explanted human hearts and dynamics of ventricular fibrillation in sheep. He's also investigated the mechanism of arrhythmias in J-wave syndromes, the role of autonomic nervous system in cardiac repolarization and in mechanisms of arrhythmias resulting from acute ischemia.
Editor
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Content
Part 1 Introduction
1. Defining the Conduction System
Part 2 Development and Evolution
2. History of the Cardiac Conduction System
3. Development of the Cardiac Conduction System
4. Regulatory Networks in the Cardiac Conduction System
5. Cardiac Conduction System in Mammals
6. Cardiac Conduction System in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
Part 3 Electrophysiology
7. Electrophysiology of the Sinus Node
8. Electrophysiology of the Atrioventricular Node
9. His Bundle, Bundle Branches, Purkinje Cells
10. Autonomic Modulation of the Conduction System
Part 4 Disease and Treatment
11. Conduction System Diseases and Mechanism of Arrhythmias
12. The Therapeutic Potential of Conduction System Pacing
13. Modeling of the Cardiac Conduction System
14. Building and Repairing the Cardiac Conduction System
15. Corrective Surgery and the Conduction System
1. Defining the Conduction System
Part 2 Development and Evolution
2. History of the Cardiac Conduction System
3. Development of the Cardiac Conduction System
4. Regulatory Networks in the Cardiac Conduction System
5. Cardiac Conduction System in Mammals
6. Cardiac Conduction System in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
Part 3 Electrophysiology
7. Electrophysiology of the Sinus Node
8. Electrophysiology of the Atrioventricular Node
9. His Bundle, Bundle Branches, Purkinje Cells
10. Autonomic Modulation of the Conduction System
Part 4 Disease and Treatment
11. Conduction System Diseases and Mechanism of Arrhythmias
12. The Therapeutic Potential of Conduction System Pacing
13. Modeling of the Cardiac Conduction System
14. Building and Repairing the Cardiac Conduction System
15. Corrective Surgery and the Conduction System