Image: Seals are consumers. An ecosystem is made up of animals, plants and bacteria as well as the physical and chemical environment they live in. The living parts of an ecosystem are called factors while the environmental factors that they interact with are called abiotic factors.
Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), also called atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), atrial natriuretic hormone (ANH), cardionatrine, cardiodilatin (CDD), or atriopeptin, is a powerful vasodilator, and a protein (polypeptide) hormone secreted by heart muscle cells.
The role of calcium entry in cardiac excitation-contraction coupling was subsequently explained by the finding that calcium release from the cardiac SR, unlike that of skeletal muscle, depends on a small calcium influx across the plasma membrane in a process called âcalcium-triggered calcium releaseâ. 36 Calcium release from the cardiac SR, which causes localized âcalcium sparksâ that can be visualized when cells are injected with calcium-sensitive dyes, 37 38 is a critical ...