Discordant temporal changes in electrophysiological properties during electrical remodeling and its recovery in the canine atrium

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-181

  Shiroshita Takeshita, Akiko ^a   Mitamura, Hideo ^a   Shinagawa, Kaori ^a   Sato, Toshiaki ^a   Kurita, Yasuo ^a   Kanki, Hideaki ^a   Takatsuki, Seiji ^a   Hara, Motoki ^a   Ogawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Conduction characteristics; Electrophysiology; Rapid atrial pacing; Reversibility

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOG; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART PACING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DOGS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MALE;

EID: 0036514469     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.43.167     Document Type: Article

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