Age-associated changes in excitation-contraction coupling are more prominent in ventricular myocytes from male rats than in myocytes from female rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Howlett, Susan E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Calcium release; Calcium transients; Gender; Senescence

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

AGE; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; MALE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 74949128544     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00214.2009     Document Type: Article

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