purkinje fibers (subendocardial branches of atrioventricular bundle)

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Introduction

Interlacing fibers formed of modified cardiac muscle cells with central granulated protoplasm. They are the terminal ramifications of the conducting system of heart, conveying depolarization from the His bundle into the ventricles.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
  2. Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th edition, KL Moore & AF Dalley (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 1999.
  3. Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology, Eldra P. Solomon. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, PA 1992.