Correlation between myofilament response to Ca2+ and altered dynamics of contraction and relaxation in transgenic cardiac cells that express β- tropomyosin

Circulation Research

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 745-751

  Wolska, Beata M ^a   Keller, Rebecca S ^a   Evans, Christian C ^a   Palmiter, Kimberly A ^a   Phillips, Ronald M ^a   Muthuchamy, Mariappan ^b,c   Oehlenschlager, James ^b   Wieczorek, David F ^b   De Tombe, Pieter P ^a   Solaro, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocyte; Sarcomere; Thin filament; Transgenic mice; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; MOUSE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SARCOMERE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0033574693     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.84.7.745     Document Type: Article

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