Intracellular Ca2+ release contributes to automaticity in cat atrial pacemaker cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 524, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 415-422

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

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; NICKEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CAT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SINUS NODE; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL CELL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CALCIUM; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART ATRIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCARDIUM; NICKEL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0141653536     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2000.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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