The missing link in the mystery of normal automaticity of cardiac pacemaker cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1123, Issue , 2008, Pages 41-57

  Lakatta, Edward G ^a   Vinogradova, Tatiana M ^a   Maltsev, Victor A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Cardiac pacemaker; Na Ca exchanger; Ryanodine receptor; Sarcoplasmic reticulum

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ION CHANNEL; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANTIBODY LABELING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SIZE; CHRONOTROPISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIASTOLIC DEPOLARIZATION; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; HEART RHYTHM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; KINETICS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PURKINJE CELL; REJUVENATION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SINUS NODE; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 41149085528     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1420.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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