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Myocardial Contraction

Known as: contractions heart, Contraction, Myocardial, Heart--Contraction 
The multicellular organismal process in which the heart decreases in volume in a characteristic way to propel blood through the body. [GOC:dph]
National Institutes of Health

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Broader (2)

Blood Circulationheart function
Cardiac ChronotropyCardiotonic AgentsDiastoleHeart Contractility

Narrower (1)

Cardiac Muscle Contraction

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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Changes in mitochondrial calcium concentration during the cardiac contraction cycle.
OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine whether mitochondrial Ca2+ fluxes are high enough to change mitochondrial and cytosolic calcium… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Protein kinase C enhances myosin light-chain kinase effects on force development and ATPase activity in rat single skinned cardiac cells.
Many neurohormones alter the force of cardiac contraction by variations in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration. alpha 1… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Neural Control of Heart Beat in the Pteropod Mollusc Clione Limacina: Coordination of Circulatory and Locomotor Systems
Summary 1. In the intact pteropod mollusc Clione limacina a correlation between heart beat and locomotor activity has been found… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Effect of vanadate on cardiac contraction and adenylate cyclase.
Review
1978
Review
1978
Protein kinase-catalyzed membrane phosphorylation and its possible relationship to the role of calcium in the adrenergic regulation of cardiac contraction.
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
A fraction of the ventricular myocardium that has the specificity of the cardiac beta-adrenergic receptor.
The 78,000 x g microsomal fraction of canine ventricular myocardium effected a 20-fold concentration of [(3)H]norepinephrine from… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
The mechanical parameters of myocardial contraction studied at a constant length of the contractile element.
Edman, K. A. P. and E. Nilsson. The mechanical parameters of myocardial contraction studied at a constant length of the… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
A STUDY OF SOME OF THE PHARMACOLOGIC ACTIONS OF DROPERIDOL.
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
The human conducting-system and its examination
It may be said that the survival of the race depends upon the reproductive organs but that the survival of the individual to… 
Highly Cited
1935
Highly Cited
1935
Asynchronism in contraction of the ventricles in the so-called common type of bundle-branch block: Its bearing on the determination of the side of the significant lesion and on the mechanism of split…
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