Matters of the heart: The physiology of cardiac function and failure

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 973-986

  Smith, Godfrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CALCIUM; DIGOXIN; PHOSPHOLAMBAN;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE; GENE TRANSFER; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPOLARIZATION; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SURVIVAL; UPREGULATION;

EID: 35248829521     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2007.034314     Document Type: Review

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