Anisotropic reentry in a perfused 2-dimensional layer of rabbit ventricular myocardium

Circulation

Volumn 102, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 2650-2658

  Schalij, Martin J ^a   Boersma, Lucas ^b   Huijberts, Maya ^b   Allessie, Maurits A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Electrophysiology; Reentry; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FREEZING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ISOLATED HEART; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034700276     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.102.21.2650     Document Type: Article

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