Quantitative Cardiac Electrophysiology
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: August 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780824707743
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Science; Heart; Cardiac Arrythmia; Echocardiography; Medical / Nursing; Physiology; Science/Mathematics; Heart conduction system; Cardiology; Medical / Cardiology; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Arrhythmia; Electric properties; Electrophysiology
First sentence: Electrical activity in the heart is generated at the molecular level by specialized membrane-spanning proteins that control the movement of ions either by passive electrodiffusion through transmembrane pores (i.e., channels) or translocation across the membrane by carrier proteins (pumps, exchangers, and transporters).