[The development of cardiac function and its relation to metabolism during the perinatal period]

V Guarner

[The development of cardiac function and its relation to metabolism during the perinatal period]

Arch Inst Cardiol Mex. 1994 Jan-Feb;64(1):73-80.

[Article in Spanish]

Author

V Guarner¹

Affiliation

¹ Departamento de Fisiología, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, México, D.F.

PMID: 8179441

Abstract

Several aspects of heart development are reviewed such as development of excitability and electrical and mechanical activity of the heart. Special emphasis is made upon metabolic changes during heart development and its possible consequences on electrical and mechanical activity.

Publication types

English Abstract
Review

MeSH terms

Biological Transport
Biomechanical Phenomena
Electrophysiology
Energy Metabolism
Fetal Heart / embryology*
Fetal Heart / metabolism*
Fetal Heart / physiology
Glucose / metabolism
Humans

Substances

Glucose