Fibrillation or neurillation: Back to the future in our concepts of sudden cardiac death?

Circulation Research

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1062-1064

  Efimov, Igor R ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Nerve sprouting; Neural repair; Regeneration; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROMODULIN; TENASCIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; THEORY;

ANIMALS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0038390234     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000075793.51113.6A     Document Type: Editorial

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