Electric currents applied during refractory period enhance contractility and systolic calcium in the ferret heart

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 284, Issue 4 53-4, 2003, Pages

  Mohri, Satoshi ^a   Shimizu, Juichiro ^a   Mika, Yuval ^b   Shemer, Itzhak ^c   Wang, Jie ^a   Ben Haim, Shlomo ^b,c   Burkhoff, Daniel ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b Impulse Dynamics   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

blocker; Aequorin; Calcium responsiveness

Indexed keywords

AEQUORIN; CALCIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FERRET; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; INOTROPISM; LUMINESCENCE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SYSTOLE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AEQUORIN; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FERRETS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROPRANOLOL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037377554     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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