The relationship between the intracellular Ca2+ transient and the isometric twitch force in frog muscle fibres

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 711-724

  Sun, Y B ^a   Lou, F ^a   Edman, K A P ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; FLUORESCENT DYE; NITRATE; ZINC; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; FLUO 3; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; SARCOMERE LENGTH; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; ANIMAL; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FLUORESCENT DYES; KINETICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RANA TEMPORARIA; XANTHENES;

EID: 0029658403     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1996.sp003971     Document Type: Article

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