conducting system of heart
The cardiac conduction system consists of specialized cardiomyocytes that regulate the frequency of heart beat[GO]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0003161 ]
Synonyms: heart conduction system, systema conducente cordis, cardiac conducting system, complexus stimulans cordis, impulse conducting system, cardiac impulse conducting system, cardionector, cardiac conduction system
Term info
- ZFA:0005063
- EHDAA2:0004185
- EFO:0003909
- SCTID:281489000
- EV:0100025
- MA:0000094
- FMA:9476
- MESH:D006329
- EMAPA:35428
- TAO:0005063
- VHOG:0001271
efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
The fish heart displays clear polarity of contraction in a posterior-to-anterior direction. The contraction waves originate in the sinus venosus and terminate in the conus arteriosus. The nodal phenotype persists in the inflow region of the heart, varying from the venosinus to the sinoatrial junctional areas in different species . Similar to the mammalian situation, pacemaker tissue with a lower intrinsic rhythmicity is also found at the atrioventricular junction.[uncertain][VHOG]
EHDAA2 divides the system from the tissue
central conduction system
uberon
UBERON:0002350
Conducting system of heart, conducting system of heart
Term relations
- conducting tissue of heart
- cardiac muscle tissue of myocardium
- has part some myocardial endocrine cell
- has part some Purkinje myocyte
- has part some myocyte of sinoatrial node
- contributes to morphology of some heart
- has part some transitional myocyte
- has part some myocyte of atrioventricular node