Action potential repolarization enabled by Ca++ channel deactivation in PSpice simulation of smooth muscle propagation

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ramasamy, Lakshminarayanan ^a   Sperelakis, Nicholas ^b  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL REPOLARIZATION; CARDIAC MUSCLE; MUSCLE PROPAGATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TOTAL PROPAGATION TIME (TPT);

CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; MUSCLE; POLARIZATION; POSITIVE IONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

CALCIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; GAP JUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; HEART MUSCLE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; REPOLARIZATION; SIMULATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHANNEL GATING; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 30544450093     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-4-71     Document Type: Article

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