Cardiac electromechanical models: From cell to organ

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 2 AUG, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Trayanova, Natalia A ^a   Rice, John Jeremy ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Activation; Active tension; Electromechanical model; Heart; Myofilament; Myosin; Stretch induced arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856386545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2011.00043     Document Type: Article

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