Influencing the heart rate of rats with weak external mechanical stimulation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 36-43

  Hsiu, H ^a,b   Jan, M Y ^a,b   Lin Wang, Y Y ^b,c   Wang, W K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Blood pressure; Heart rate; Rats; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0037250395     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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