Year: 1963
Type: article
Abstract: Although the title suggests a survey of our present knowledge of the cardiac conducting system, this book is actually the published proceedings of a symposium held in 1960.The delay in publication, the independent nature of many of the contributions and the perpetuation of their informal discussion are disadvantages found in this, and many similar, publications.Eight of the thirteen papers are concerned with electrical phenomena, these confirm the early work of Lewis and add greater precision to the determination of the direction and rate of myocardial conduction by the use of intracellular micro-electrodes.Three papers on conventional histology add little that is new because of the absence, in many species, of clear objective features by which the conducting tissue cells can be defined.Two valuable articles on electron microscopy are unfortunately restricted to the histo- genesis of normal myocardium and seem unrelated to the subject of the symposium.This book should be available in libraries and departments, for many of the contributions deserve reference.Publications of this type are of limited value unless all the articles on a single theme are closely integrated.When this is not the case, the individual papers are likely to be of more value if published in the appropriate journals.A. R.
Source: PubMed Central
Author: A. R. Muir
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W217180353