Commentary: Modulation of cardiac function: Titin springs into action

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-252

  Lim, Chee Chew ^a   Sawyer, Douglas B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; ISOPROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; NOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HEART DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOMERE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN KINASES; SARCOMERES;

EID: 15244358176     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200509268     Document Type: Note

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