Letter to the editor: "validating the requirement for beat-to-beat coupling of the ca2+ clock and M clock in pacemaker cell normal automaticity"

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Maltsev, Victor A ^a   Vinogradova, Tatiana M ^a   Stern, Michael D ^a   Lakatta, Edward G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; LETTER; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHELATING AGENTS; EGTAZIC ACID; GUINEA PIGS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINOATRIAL NODE; SODIUM-CALCIUM EXCHANGER;

EID: 79958025230     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00110.2011     Document Type: Letter

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