Stretch-induced changes in heart rate and rhythm: Clinical observations, experiments and mathematical models

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-138

  Kohl, Peter ^a   Hunter, Peter ^b   Noble, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032893947     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6107(98)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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