Intracellular Ca2+ release sparks atrial pacemaker activity

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 101-106

  Lipsius, Stephen L ^a   Hüser, Jörg ^b   Blatter, Lothar A ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SODIUM-CALCIUM EXCHANGER;

EID: 0035379208     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiologyonline.2001.16.3.101     Document Type: Article

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