Quantitative Analysis of Calcium Spikes in Noisy Fluorescent Background

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Janicek, Radoslav ^a   Hotka, Matej ^a,b   Zahradníková Jr , Alexandra ^a   Zahradníková, Alexandra ^a   Zahradník, Ivan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RYANODINE RECEPTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; LASER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84878530608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064394     Document Type: Article

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