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Nitric oxide regulation of myocardial contractility and calcium cycling: independent impact of neuronal and endothelial nitric oxide synthases.
Circulation research - 27 Jun 2003
Khan Shakil A, Skaf Michel W, Harrison Robert W, Lee Kwangho, Minhas Khalid M, Kumar Anil, Fradley Mike, Shoukas Artin A, Berkowitz Dan E, Hare Joshua M
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms by which nitric oxide (NO) influences myocardial Ca2+ cycling remain controversial. Because NO synthases (NOS) have specific spatial localization in cardiac myocytes, we hypothesized that neuronal NOS (NOS1) found in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) preferentially regulates SR Ca2+ release and reuptake resulting in potentiation of the cardiac force-frequency response (FFR). Transesophageal...
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