Reentrant waves in a ring of embryonic chick ventricular cells imaged with a Ca2+ sensitive dye

BioSystems

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 71-80

  González, Hortensia ^a   Nagai, Yoshihiko ^b   Bub, G ^b   Glass, Leon ^a   Shrier, Alvin ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmias; Overdrive suppression; Pacemakers; Reentrant tachycardia; Refractory period; Unidirectional block

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DYE;

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE; GEOMETRY; HEART CELL CULTURE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGING; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

EID: 0142122088     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(03)00111-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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