Application of chaos theory to a model biological system: Evidence of self-organization in the intrinsic cardiac nervous system

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 122-146

  Skinner, James E ^a   Wolf, Stewart G ^a   Yasha Kresh, J ^b   Izrailtyan, Igor ^b   Armour, J A ^c   Huang, Ming He ^d  

^a Totts Gap Medical Research Laboratories   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Determinism; Heart rate variability; Lyapunov exponent; Neuromodulation; Neuroplasticity; Point correlation dimension

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; INNERVATION; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART RATE; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RABBITS;

EID: 0030114415     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02699784     Document Type: Article

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