Researchers illuminate link between sodium, calcium and heartbeat
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
Using the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, researchers from the University of British Columbia have revealed, for the first time, one of the molecular mechanisms that regulates the beating of heart cells by controlling the movement of sodium in out of the cells -- and what calcium has to do with it. Their findings are published in the Feb. 14, 2012 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.