Atrial fibrillation produced by prolonged rapid atrial pacing is associated with heterogeneous changes in atrial sympathetic innervation

Circulation

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1185-1191

  Jayachandran, J Vijay ^a   Sih, Haris J ^a   Winkle, Wendy ^b   Zipes, Douglas P ^a   Hutchins, Gary D ^b   Olgin, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiology; Hydroxyephedrine; Nervous system, autonomic; Tomography

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INNERVATION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

EID: 0034646446     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.10.1185     Document Type: Article

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