Cardiac alternans and ventricular fibrillation: A bad case of ryanodine receptors reneging on their duty

Circulation Research

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1369-1371

  Escobar, Ariel L ^a   Valdivia, Héctor H ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RYANODINE RECEPTOR;

CARDIAC ALTERNANS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHANNELOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; T WAVE;

EDITORIALS; MYOCARDIUM; OPTICAL RESTRICTION MAPPING; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84899628689     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.114.303823     Document Type: Review

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