Beating to time: Calcium clocks, voltage clocks, and cardiac pacemaker activity

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Eisner, David A ^a   Cerbai, Elisabetta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; IVABRADINE; RYANODINE; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

BETA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHRONOTROPISM; EDITORIAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RHYTHM; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ION CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOLEMMA; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SINUS NODE; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE; OSCILLOMETRY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OSCILLOMETRY; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SARCOLEMMA; SINOATRIAL NODE; SODIUM-CALCIUM EXCHANGER;

EID: 64049103106     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00056.2009     Document Type: Editorial

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