Cardiac Mechanotransduction

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Weckström, Matti (Συγγραφέας), Tavi, Pasi (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Cardiology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Cell Biology.

For about hundred years the investigation of heart physiology has had one central guiding principle, the "law" of Frank and Starling. This connects the return of blood into the heart and the blood pressure with cardiac con­ traction force. The "law" does it in a way that enables...

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• Mechanotransduction in Cardiac Remodeling and Heart Failure
• Second Messenger Systems Involved in Heart Mechanotransduction
• The Role of Adrenoceptors in Mechanotransduction
• Intracellular Signaling Through Protein Kinases in Cardiac Mechanotransduction
• Mechanotransduction of the Endocrine Heart.