Regulation of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling by action potential repolarization: Role of the transient outward potassium current (Ito)

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 546, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-18

  Sah, Rajan ^a   Ramirez, Rafael J ^a   Oudit, Gavin Y ^a   Gidrewicz, Dominica ^a   Trivieri, Maria G ^a   Zobel, Carsten ^b   Backx, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIRING RATE; HEART EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

EID: 0037232509     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.026468     Document Type: Review

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