Sex differences in mechanisms of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling in rat ventricular myocytes

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Farrell, Spring R ^a   Ross, Jenna L ^a   Howlett, Susan E ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium release; Calcium sparks; Calcium transients; Gender

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATION; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; KINETICS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77953764849     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00299.2010     Document Type: Article

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