Cardiac alternans and intracellular calcium cycling

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 524-532

  Edwards, Joshua N ^a   Blatter, Lothar A ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Arrhythmia; Cardiac alternans; Excitation contraction coupling; Restitution

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; BEAT TO BEAT OSCILLATION; BIDIRECTIONAL COUPLING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CYCLING; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CARDIAC ALTERNANS; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOSOL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CYTOLOGY; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 84903903319     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1440-1681.12231     Document Type: Article

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