Toward an integrative computational model of the guinea pig cardiac myocyte

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 JUL, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gauthier, Laura Doyle ^a   Greenstein, Joseph L ^a   Winslow, Raimond L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium cycling, calcium induced calcium release, cardiac myocyte, computational model, excitation contraction coupling, mitochondrial energetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866458466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00244     Document Type: Article

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