Optical mapping in a new guinea pig model of ventricular tachycardia reveals mechanisms for multiple wavelengths in a single reentrant circuit

Circulation

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 603-613

  Girouard, Steven D ^a   Pastore, Joseph M ^a   Laurita, Kenneth R ^a   Gregory, Kenton W ^a   Rosenbaum, David S ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

action potentials; electrophysiology; mapping; reentry; tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; GUINEA PIG; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0030022461     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.3.603     Document Type: Article

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