Transient outward current modulates discontinuous conduction in rabbit ventricular cell pairs

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 779-789

  Huelsing, Delilah J ^a   Pollard, Andrew E ^a   Spitzer, Kenneth W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia (mechanisms); Cell communication; Conduction (block); Ion channels; K channels; Membrane potential; Ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RABBITS;

EID: 0035110241     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(00)00300-X     Document Type: Article

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