Regional differences in action potential characteristics and membrane currents of guinea-pig left ventricular myocytes

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 747-761

  Main, M C ^a   Bryant, S M ^a   Hart, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; REPOLARIZATION;

EID: 0031766971     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1998.sp004156     Document Type: Article

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