Differing sympathetic and vagal effects on atrial fibrillation in dogs: Role of refractoriness heterogeneity

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 2 42-2, 1997, Pages

  Liu, Lili ^b   Nattel, Stanley ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antiarrhythmic drugs; Arrhythmia; Arrhythmia mechanisms; Autonomic nervous system; Cardiac reentry; Wavelength

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE; MORPHINE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0030760009     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.273.2.h805     Document Type: Article

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