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The regulatory role of calcium in striated muscle

C A Tate1, G E Taffet

  • 1Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
|August 1, 1989
PubMed

Keywords:
Calcium signalingMuscle physiologyExcitation-contraction couplingMitochondrial function

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