Wavelet formation in excitable cardiac tissue: The role of wavefront-obstacle interactions in initiating high-frequency fibrillatory-like arrhythmias

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 2 I, 1996, Pages 581-594

  Starobin, Josef M ^a   Zilberter, Yuri I ^a   Rusnak, Elizabeth M ^a   Starmer, C Frank ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIA; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SODIUM; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0030053563     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79624-8     Document Type: Article

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