Mechano-sensitivity of cardiac pacemaker function: Pathophysiological relevance, experimental implications, and conceptual integration with other mechanisms of rhythmicity

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 110, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 257-268

  Quinn, T Alexander ^a,b   Kohl, Peter ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beat by beat regulation; Calcium clock; Coupled oscillators; Electrophysiology; Mechano electric feedback (or coupling); Membrane clock; Pacemaker; Rate adaptation; Stretch

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOMECHANICS; HEART; HUMAN; MECHANICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CALCIUM; HEART; HUMANS; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS;

EID: 84868138321     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2012.08.008     Document Type: Review

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