Proarrhythmic atrial calcium cycling in the diseased heart

During the last decades Ca2+ has been found to play a crucial role in cardiac arrhythmias associated with heart failure and a number of congenital arrhythmia syndromes. Recent studies demonstrated that altered atrial Ca2+ cycling may promote the initiation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation, the...

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Hauptverfasser: Voigt, Niels (VerfasserIn) , Nattel, Stanley (VerfasserIn) , Dobrev, Dobromir (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Kapitel/Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 14 February 2012
In: Calcium signaling
Year: 2012, Pages: 1175-1191
DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_53
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_53
Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_53
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Verfasserangaben:Niels Voigt, Stanley Nattel, Dobromir Dobrev
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Zusammenfassung:During the last decades Ca2+ has been found to play a crucial role in cardiac arrhythmias associated with heart failure and a number of congenital arrhythmia syndromes. Recent studies demonstrated that altered atrial Ca2+ cycling may promote the initiation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation, the most common clinical arrhythmia that contributes significantly to population morbidity and mortality. This article describes physiological Ca2+ cycling mechanisms in atrial cardiomyocytes and relates them to fundamental cellular proarrhythmic mechanisms involving Ca2+ signaling abnormalities in the atrium during atrial fibrillation.
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ISBN:9789400728882
DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_53