Cardiac contraction, calcium transients, and myofilament calcium sensitivity fluctuate with the estrous cycle in young adult female mice

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  MacDonald, Jennifer K ^a   Pyle, W Glen ^b   Reitz, Cristine J ^b   Howlett, Susan E ^a,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gender; Sex; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (MAGNESIUM); CALCIUM; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN BINDING PROTEIN C; PROGESTERONE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; KERATINOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; METESTRUS; MOUSE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPOLARIZATION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SMEAR; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

GENDER; SEX; SEX HORMONES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARRIER PROTEINS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESTROUS CYCLE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOFIBRILS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84900530896     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00730.2013     Document Type: Article

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