Calcium signalling in cardiac muscle: Refractoriness revealed by coherent activation

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 323-329

  DelPrincipe, Franco ^a   Egger, Marcel ^a   Niggli, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUINEA PIG; HEART MUSCLE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUINEA PIGS; MYOCARDIUM; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SODIUM-CALCIUM EXCHANGER;

EID: 0033203075     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/14013     Document Type: Article

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