Title:
Physiology of the heart / Arnold M. Katz.
Main Entry:
Katz, Arnold M.
Publisher:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Publication Date:
c2006.
Publication Place:
Philadelphia :
ISBN:
0781755018 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Heart -- Physiology.
Heart -- Pathophysiology.
Edition:
4th ed.
Contents:
Structure of the heart and cardiac muscle -- Energetics and energy production -- Energy utilization (work and heat) -- The contractile proteins -- The cytoskeleton -- Active state, length-tension relationship, cardiac mechanics -- Excitation-contraction coupling -- Signal transduction: functional signaling -- Signal transduction: proliferative signaling -- Regulation of cardiac muscle performance -- The heart as a muscular pump -- The working heart -- Cardiac ion channels -- The cardiac action potential -- The electrocardiogram -- Arrhythmias -- The ischemic heart -- Heart failure.
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