Time course of individual Ca2+ sparks in frog skeletal muscle recorded at high time resolution

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-198

  Lacampagne, Alain ^a   Ward, Christopher W ^a   Klein, Michael G ^a   Schneider, Martin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Excitation contraction coupling; Ryanodine receptor; Video rate line scan imaging

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DEPOLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; FROG; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RANA PIPIENS;

EID: 0032944663     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.113.2.187     Document Type: Article

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