Shape, size, and distribution of Ca2+ release units and couplons in skeletal and cardiac muscles

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1528-1539

  Franzini Armstrong, Clara ^a   Protasi, Feliciano ^a,c   Ramesh, Venkat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHICKEN; DOG; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FISH; FROG; GUINEA PIG; HEART MUSCLE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAVIA PORCELLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032839459     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77000-1     Document Type: Article

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