Arnold M. Katz

Preface Why write a textbook about the biophysical basis of cardiac function? Of what importance are the energetics and chemistry of myocardial contraction to anyone but a physical chemist or a biochemist? Why should electrical potentials at the surface of the myocardial cell concern those who...

FOREWORD Many years of physiological and clinical study have confirmed that the heart is not anxious to disclose its innermost workings. Even in the normal heart, particularly at the ultrastructural level, large conceptual jumps have to be made in order to relate structure and function. The...