cardiac muscle cell

However, if left to their own devices, cardiac muscle cells in different areas of your heart would beat at different rates.

Until recently, it was commonly believed that cardiac muscle cells could not be regenerated.

"Medical devices are straightforward applications, machines that target cardiac muscle cells.

Since the stages are analogous to contraction of cardiac muscle cells, they have the same naming system.

Automaticity refers to a cardiac muscle cell firing off an impulse on its own.

During stage 4 of the action potential, the inside of the cardiac muscle cell rests at 90 mV.

As in snakes, the expansion of the mouse heart occurred largely through the growth in cardiac muscle cells.

Neocardiogenesis replaces dead cardiac muscle cells with living cells so that both the structure and function of the heart are maintained.

Reprogramming cardiac connective tissue located in the heart directly into beating cardiac muscle cells.

However, in contrast to skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle cells may be branched instead of linear and longitudinal.

The gene regulates the production of a protein called dystrophin that is found in association with the membrane of skeletal and cardiac muscle cells.

Under light microscopy, intercalated discs appear as thin, typically dark-staining lines dividing adjacent cardiac muscle cells.

The heart is effectively a syncytium, a meshwork of cardiac muscle cells interconnected by contiguous cytoplasmic bridges.

Another application has been suggested as using plasma concentration of miR-208 as a biomarker of damaged cardiac muscle cells.

Mutations resulting in loss of function of K+ channels can result in delayed repolarization of the cardiac muscle cells.

A region of the human heart called the sinoatrial (SA) node, or pacemaker, sets the rate and timing at which all cardiac muscle cells contract.

Propafenone works by slowing the influx of sodium ions into the cardiac muscle cells, causing a decrease in excitability of the cells.

The ventricular syncytium is a network of cardiac muscle cells connected by gap junctions that lends to the coordinated contraction of the ventricles.

This causes synchronous contraction of the ventricles due to better matching of the excitation and the subsequent contraction among the cardiac muscle cells.

Unlike skeletal muscle cells that need to be stimulated by nerve impulses to contract, cardiac muscle cells can contract all by themselves.

A T-tubule (or transverse tubule) is a deep invagination of the sarcolemma, which is the plasma membrane, only found in skeletal and cardiac muscle cells.

Cardiac muscle cells, like all tissues in the body, rely on an ample blood supply to deliver oxygen and nutrients and to remove waste products such as carbon dioxide.

Spontaneous Ca sparks were discovered in isolated cardiac muscle cells in 1992 by Mark B. Cannell and Peace Cheng (a graduate student).

Amlodipine inhibits calcium ion influx across cell membranes selectively, with a greater effect on vascular smooth muscle cells than on cardiac muscle cells.

However, an inward flux of extracellular calcium ions through L-type calcium channels sustains the depolarization of cardiac muscle cells for a longer duration.