Relationships between transmembrane action potential changes and simultaneous changes in electrocardiograms of rats after a one-month aortic pressure overload

Physiological Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 257-269

  Lessard, Y ^a   Vernhet, L ^a   Mainguy, A ^a  

^a Group Electryca   (France)

Author keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy; Electrocardiogram; Epinephrine; In situ cardiac transmembrane potential; Induced ventricular arrhythmia; Rats

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART WEIGHT; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; QT INTERVAL; R WAVE; RAT; T WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AORTA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030798281     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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