Cardiac contractility modulation by electric currents applied during the refractory period

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 282, Issue 5 51-5, 2002, Pages

  Mohri, Satoshi ^a   He, Kun Lun ^a   Dickstein, Marc ^b   Mika, Yuval ^c   Shimizu, Juichiro ^a   Shemer, Itzhak ^c,d   Yi, Geng Hua ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Ben Haim, Shlomo ^c,d   Burkhoff, Daniel ^a  

^a Departments of Preventive Medicine   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Impulse Dynamics   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Calcium; Canine heart; In situ heart failure; Voltage clamping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOG; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0036087223     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00959.2001     Document Type: Article

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