Submicroscopic calcium signals as fundamental events of excitation-contraction coupling in guinea-pig cardiac myocytes

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 492, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-38

  Lipp, Peter ^a   Niggli, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL TYPE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GUINEA PIG; HEART MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

EID: 0029963234     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021286     Document Type: Article

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