Involvement of the calcium inward current in cardiac impulse propagation: Induction of unidirectional conduction block by nifedipine and reversal by bay K 8644

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 2 I, 1997, Pages 754-766

  Rohr, Stephan ^a   Kucera, Jan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT;

EID: 0031021775     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78710-1     Document Type: Article

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