mechanical response is contraction. Excitation–contraction coupling can be dysregulated in many diseases. Though excitation–contraction coupling has been known...
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Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling (Cardiac EC coupling) describes the series of events, from the production of an electrical impulse (action potential)...
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myofilaments to slide past each other in a process called excitation-contraction coupling. Diseases of the heart muscle known as cardiomyopathies are...
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potential (see phase 2, below) and is a fundamental step in cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. There are important physiological differences between...
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T-tubule (section Excitation-contraction coupling)
the chain from electrical excitation of a cell to its subsequent contraction (excitation-contraction coupling). When contraction of a muscle is needed, stimulation...
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incomplete looping of the cardiac tube. In an adult heart, myocardium contraction occurs via excitation-contraction coupling whereby cellular depolarisation...
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Myogenic mechanism (redirect from Myogenic contraction)
resulting influx of Ca2+ ions lead to the initiation of excitation-contraction coupling and thus contraction of the myocyte.[citation needed] Tubuloglomerular...
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cells excitation-contraction coupling maintenance of low Ca2+ concentration in the mitochondria The exchanger is also implicated in the cardiac electrical...
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Skeletal muscle (redirect from Excitation-contraction)
as a triad and is predominantly where excitation–contraction coupling takes place. Excitation–contraction coupling occurs when depolarization of skeletal...
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1152/advances.2003.27.4.201. PMID 14627618. Bers, D.M. (2002). "Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling". Nature. 415 (6868): 198–205. Bibcode:2002Natur.415..198B...
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calcium release. Instead, CICR is thought to be crucial for excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac muscle. It is now obvious that CICR is a widely occurring...
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Diad (category Cardiac anatomy)
will trigger a united muscular contraction. This process is known as excitation-contraction coupling. This contraction pushes blood inside the heart and...
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Calsequestrin (section Cardiac calsequestrin)
associated with cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death. CASQ2 is thought to have a role in regulating cardiac excitation-contraction coupling and calcium-induced...
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Smooth muscle (section Excitation-contraction coupling)
skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle in terms of structure, function, regulation of contraction, and excitation-contraction coupling. However, smooth muscle...
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detail below and are fundamental for the process of excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle. The SR contains ion channel pumps...
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this electrical flux causes coordinated depolarisation and excitation-contraction coupling from the apex of the heart up to the roots of the great vessels...
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linked to the terminal cisternae which facilitate excitation-contraction coupling. When excitation of the membrane arrives at the T-tubule nearest the...
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current pulses applied during cardiac action potentials. II. Hypotheses: calcium movements, excitation-contraction coupling and inotropic effects". Circ...
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Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (category Cardiac arrhythmia)
93. PMID 22733215. S2CID 24883043. Bers, DM (2001). Excitation-contraction coupling and cardiac contractile force (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic...
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muscle fiber. Triads form the anatomical basis of excitation-contraction coupling, whereby a stimulus excites the muscle and causes it to contract. A stimulus...
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doi:10.1093/eurheartj/sui009. Bers DM (January 2002). "Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling". Nature. 415 (6868): 198–205. Bibcode:2002Natur.415..198B...
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Pulseless electrical activity (category Cardiac arrhythmia)
mechanical contraction of the heart (known as electromechanical coupling). In PEA, there is electrical activity but insufficient cardiac output to generate...
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journal requires |journal= (help) M., Bers, D. (2001). Excitation-contraction coupling and cardiac contractile force (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic...
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Voltage-dependent calcium channels are responsible for excitation-contraction coupling of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle and for regulating aldosterone and cortisol...
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these proteins to carry out functions such as cardiac muscle relaxation, excitation-contraction coupling, and photoreceptor activity. They also maintain...
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Jayasinghe, I. (2010). Resolving the structural basis of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of...
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primarily expressed in skeletal muscle It is essential for excitation-contraction coupling RyR2 is primarily expressed in myocardium (heart muscle) the...
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GCaMP (section Cardiac conduction)
excitation light. Moreover, red fluorescent indicators allow for concurrent use of optogenetics, which is difficult with GCaMP because the excitation...
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dihydropyridine-sensitive L-type channels responsible for excitation-contraction coupling of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle and for hormone secretion in endocrine...
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membranes and macromolecular complexes responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac and skeletal muscles Her structural work can be divided...
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