Brief communication phenotype-dependent role of the l-type calcium current in embryonic stem cell derived cardiomyocytes

American Journal of Stem Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-45

  Dan, Pauline ^a,b   Zeng, Zheng ^a,b   Li, Ying ^a,b   Qu, Yang ^a,b   Hove Madsen, Leif ^c   Tibbits, Glen F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Cardiac electrophysiology; Cardiomyocyte; Pacemaker cells

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; NIFEDIPINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHENOTYPE; SPIKE;

EID: 85013209050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21604150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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