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This document discusses the electric activity of the heart, including the conduction system and action potentials. It notes that the conduction system consists of the sinoatrial node, atrioventricular node, bundle of His, and Purkinje fibers. The sinoatrial node acts as the primary pacemaker and initiates action potentials that spread through the conduction system to contract the heart muscles in a coordinated way. Cardiac muscle cells have longer action potentials than other cells due to calcium entry, whi

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Rickerts
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