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    • Macrophages facilitate electrical conduction in the heart 

      Hulsmans, Maarten; Clauss, Sebastian; Xiao, Ling; Aguirre, Aaron D.; King, Kevin R.; Hanley, Alan; Hucker, William J.; Wülfers, Eike M.; Seemann, Gunnar; Courties, Gabriel; Iwamoto, Yoshiko; Sun, Yuan; Savol, Andrej J.; Sager, Hendrik B.; Lavine, Kory J.; Fishbein, Gregory A.; Capen, Diane E.; Da Silva, Nicolas; Miquerol, Lucile; Wakimoto, Hiroko; Seidman, Christine E.; Seidman, Jonathan G.; Sadreyev, Ruslan I.; Naxerova, Kamila; Mitchell, Richard N.; Brown, Dennis; Libby, Peter; Weissleder, Ralph; Swirski, Filip K.; Kohl, Peter; Vinegoni, Claudio; Milan, David J.; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Nahrendorf, Matthias (Elsevier BV, 2017-04-01)
      Organ-specific functions of tissue-resident macrophages in the steady-state heart are unknown. Here, we show that cardiac macrophages facilitate electrical conduction through the distal atrioventricular node, where conducting ...