Reentry and fibrillation in the mouse heart: A challenge to the critical mass hypothesis

Circulation Research

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 174-181

  Vaidya, Dhananjay ^a   Morley, Gregory E ^a   Samie, Faramarz H ^a   Jalife, José ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Curvature; Rotor; Vortex like reentry; Wavelength

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; ISOLATED HEART; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; TACHYCARDIA; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0033597947     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.85.2.174     Document Type: Article

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