A mathematical model of vasoreactivity in rat mesenteric arterioles. II. Conducted vasoreactivity

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kapela, Adam ^a   Nagaraja, Sridevi ^a   Tsoukias, Nikolaos M ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium dynamics; Intercellular communication; Membrane potential

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL COUNT; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INJECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; KINETICS; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOREPINEPHRINE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 73549119222     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00546.2009     Document Type: Article

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