Competing oscillators in cardiac pacemaking: Historical background

Circulation Research

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1791-1797

  Noble, Denis ^a   Noble, Penelope J ^a   Fink, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calcium oscillator; cardiac pacemaker; heart models; membrane oscillator

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM ION; IVABRADINE; SODIUM ION;

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; ION CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SINUS NODE; SINUS RHYTHM;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MEMBRANE; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 77954212296     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.218875     Document Type: Review

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