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Cardiac Muscle Contraction

Known as: heart muscle contraction 
Driven primarily by voltage-gated Ca+2 action potentials originating in sinoatrial pace-maker cells, Cardiac Muscle Contraction involves shortening… 
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Myocardial Contraction

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cardiac muscle cell contraction

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2017
2017
SIMPLE AND RAPID SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF ATENOLOL AND ESMOLOL β-BLOCKERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS AND SPIKED WATER SAMPLES
Atenolol and esmolol drugs belonging to a β–blocker group are frequently used for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. These… 
2014
2014
The Ryanodine Receptor Leak: Its Role in the Development of Heart Failure
The cardiac ryanodine receptor-Ca 2+ release channel (RyR2) is an essential sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) transmembrane protein… 
2007
2007
states pentamer in its unphosphorylated and pseudo-phosphorylated Comparing the structure and dynamics of phospholamban
Human phospholamban (PLN), a 30 kDa homopentamer in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membrane, controls the magnitude of heart… 
2002
2002
[Effects of Ca2+ and Mg2+ on the enzymatic properties of cardiac muscle myosin].
Objective. To study the influence of Ca2+ and Mg2+ on the enzymatic properties of cardiac muscle myosin. Method. A convenient… 
2001
2001
Beta-Blockers Improve Survival and Decrease Hospitalizations in Patients with Heart Failure
What is the problem and what is known about it so far? Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart muscle cannot… 
1992
1992
Left ventricular hypertrophy in rabbits does not exaggerate the effects of halothane on the intracellular components of cardiac contraction.
Inhalational anesthetics and ventricular hypertrophy have adverse effects on cardiac muscle contraction. The effects of 1, 2, and… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Calcium antagonists and chronic cardiac failure.
The treatment of cardiac failure involves a series of steps, which are taken in an order determined by clinical necessity. In… 
1984
1984
Selectivity of alinidine, a bradycardic agent, for SA nodal automaticity versus other cardiac activities in isolated, blood-perfused dog-heart preparations.
Selectivity of alinidine for SA nodal automaticity vs. other cardiac activities was investigated using isolated, blood-perfused… 
1975
1975
Opposing regulatory influences of cyclic guanosine monophosphate and cyclic adenosine monophosphate in the control of cardiac muscle contraction.
The effects of acetylcholine chloride (ACh) and isoproterenol (Iso) on myocardial levels of guanosine 3', 5'-monophosphate… 
1973
1973
[Potentiation of heart muscle contraction produced by stimuli which were not followed by contraction].