Tachycardia induced electrical remodeling of the atria and the autonomic nervous system in goats

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1656-1667

  Blaauw, Yuri ^a   Tieleman, Robert G ^a   Brouwer, Jan ^a   Van Den Berg, Maarten P ^a   De Kam, Pieter ^a   De Langen, Cees D J ^b   Haaksma, Jaap ^a   Grandjean, Jan G ^a   Patberg, Kornelis W ^a   Van Gelder, Isabelle C ^a   Crijns, Harry J G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Goats; Heart rate variability; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GOAT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VAGUS TONE;

EID: 0032708863     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00386.x     Document Type: Article

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