Effect of temperature and prolonged anoxia exposure on electrophysiological properties of the turtle (Trachemys scripta) heart

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Stecyk, Jonathan A W ^a   Paajanen, Vesa ^b   Farrell, Anthony P ^a   Vornanen, Matti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Action potential; Delayed rectifier potassium channel current; Inward rectifier potassium channel current; L type calcium channel current; Red eared slider turtle; Sodium channel current; Thermal acclimation; Voltage gated

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CALCIUM CURRENT; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOLEMMA; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TURTLE; WHOLE CELL; WINTER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACIDOSIS; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CELL SEPARATION; COLD; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNELS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HEART RATE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; SARCOLEMMA; SODIUM CHANNELS; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

EID: 34447643911     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00096.2007     Document Type: Article

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