A gradient model of cardiac pacemaker myocytes.

@article{Lovell2004AGM,
  title={A gradient model of cardiac pacemaker myocytes.},
  author={Nigel Hamilton Lovell and Shaun L. Cloherty and Branko George Celler and Socrates Dokos},
  journal={Progress in biophysics and molecular biology},
  year={2004},
  volume={85 2-3},
  pages={
          301-23
        }
}
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