Natalie Chandler, Oleg Aslanidi, David Buckley, Shin Inada, Steven Birchall, Andrew Atkinson, Danielle Kirk, Oliver Monfredi, Peter Molenaar, Robert Anderson, Vinod Sharma, Daniel Sigg, Henggui Zhang, Mark Boyett, Halina Dobrzynski
We have previously shown in rabbit that the pacemaker of the heart (the sinus node) is widespread and matches the wide distribution of the leading pacemaker site within the right atrium. There is, however, uncertainty about the precise location of the pacemaker in human heart, and its spatial relationships with the surrounding right atrial muscle. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to investigate the distribution of the sinus node tissue in a series of healthy human hearts and, for one of the hearts to construct a computer three-dimensional anatomical model of the sinus node, including the likely orientation of myocytes...
June 2011: Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology