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Electron-conformational transformations in nanoscopic RyR channels govern both the heart's contraction and beating

Biological Physics 2015-05-27 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We show that a simple biophysically based electron-conformational model of RyR channel is able to explain and describe on equal footing the oscillatory regime of the heart's cell release unit both in sinoatrial node (pacemaker) cells under normal physiological conditions and in ventricular myocytes under Ca2+^{2+} SR overload.

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@article{arxiv.1103.6109,
  title  = {Electron-conformational transformations in nanoscopic RyR channels govern both the heart's contraction and beating},
  author = {A. S. Moskvin and A. M. Ryvkin and O. E. Solovyova and V. S. Markhasin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.6109},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures