Voltage dependence of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling: Unitary Ca2+ current amplitude and open channel probability

Circulation Research

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 590-597

  Altamirano, Julio ^a,b   Bers, Donald M ^a,c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium induced calcium release; Excitation contraction coupling

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; RYANODINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

EID: 34748891781     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.107.152322     Document Type: Article

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