Modulation of atrial repolarization by site of pacing in the isolated rabbit heart

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1465-1470

  Wood, Mark A ^a   Mangano, Robert A ^a   Schieken, Richard M ^a   Baumgarten, Clive M ^a   Simpson, Pippa M ^b   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

action potentials; atrium; pacing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0029794516     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.6.1465     Document Type: Article

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