Orchard, Clive H. and Mustafa, Mohd Rais and White, Edward (1995) Oscillations and waves of intracellular CA2+ in cardiac-muscle-cells. Chaos Solitons & Fractals, 5 (3-4). pp. 447-458. ISSN 0960-0779, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-0779(93)e0036-b.
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Abstract
When cardiac muscle cells become overloaded with Ca2+, spontaneous releases of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum can occur. Such spontaneous releases normally originate within a localized region of the cell and propagate as a wave throughout the cell. The amplitude and frequency of these Ca2+ releases increase with the degree of Ca2+ loading of the cell, and are abolished by interventions which inhibit sarcoplasmic reticulum function. It is still not clear whether these releases are triggered by a rise in the Ca2+ in the lumen of the sarcoplasmic reticulum or by a rise in cytoplasmic Ca2+. Such releases may, however, by activating inward currents, depolarize the cell membrane and thus be arrhythmogenic; they may also, by decreasing the amount of Ca2+ within the sarcoplasmic reticulum, decrease the strength of a stimulated contraction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Additional Information: | Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Pharmacology |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > School of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms Haslinda Lahuddin |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2012 03:29 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2019 06:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/3034 |
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