The funny current has a major pacemaking role in the sinus node

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-301

  Difrancesco, Dario ^a   Noble, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ca clock; Funny current; Pacemaker; Sinus node

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; IVABRADINE; RYANODINE; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRADYCARDIA; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FUNNY CURRENT; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART PACING; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPOTHESIS; ION CURRENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SINUS NODE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; TACHYCARDIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; SINOATRIAL NODE;

EID: 84856167091     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.09.021     Document Type: Article

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