Modeling Ca2+ Signaling in the Microcirculation: Intercellular Communication and Vasoreactivity

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 435-460

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

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

Author keywords

Endothelium; Smooth muscle; Spreading responses; Vascular tone; Vasomotion

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CALCIUM; COMPLEX NETWORKS; HEMODYNAMICS; MACHINERY; MICROCIRCULATION; OXYGENATION;

ENDOTHELIUM; SMOOTH MUSCLES; SPREADING RESPONSE; VASCULAR TONES; VASOMOTION;

CELL SIGNALING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CYCLIC GMP; DIACYLGLYCEROL; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR; EPOXYICOSATRIENOIC ACID; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM;

ARTERIOLE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTERY TONE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CREMASTER MUSCLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPERTENSION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; SYNCYTIUM; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; ADAPTATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; HEMODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 84555178534     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v39.i5.50     Document Type: Review

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