Basic and clinical electrophysiology of pulmonary vein ectopy

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 287-294

  De Bakker, Jacques M T ^a,b,e   Ho, Siew Y ^c   Hocini, Mélèze ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia (mechanism); Impulse formation; Supraventr. arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE; ISOPRENALINE; NIFEDIPINE; NORADRENALIN; OUABAIN; PROPRANOLOL; SOTALOL; TETRODOTOXIN;

DEPOLARIZATION; DOG; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GUINEA PIG; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART BEAT; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; ISOLATED HEART; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VENOCONSTRICTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHORISTOMA; DOGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GUINEA PIGS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS; RATS;

EID: 0036219368     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(01)00532-6     Document Type: Review

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