Localized intracellular calcium signaling in muscle: Calcium sparks and calcium quarks

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1999, Pages 311-335

  Niggli, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac muscle; Confocal microscopy; Excitation contraction coupling; Heart; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEART MUSCLE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 0033002601     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.61.1.311     Document Type: Review

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