Ca2+ Sparks within 200 nm of the sarcolemma of rat ventricular cells: Evidence from total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 430, Issue , 1997, Pages 57-65

  Cleemann, Lars ^a,b   DiMassa, Giancarlo ^a   Morad, Martin ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOLEMMA; SECRETION; SHARK; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL ADHESION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; SARCOLEMMA; SHARKS;

EID: 0030611556     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5959-7_5     Document Type: Article

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