Atrial tachycardia remodeling of pulmonary vein cardiomyocytes: Comparison with left atrium and potential relation to arrhythmogenesis

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 728-735

  Cha, Tae Joon ^a   Ehrlich, Joachim R ^a   Zhang, Liming ^a   Chartier, Denis ^a   Leung, Tack Ki ^a   Nattel, Stanley ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrium; Fibrillation; Ion channels

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; ION CURRENT; LUNG VEIN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PULMONARY VEINS; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 13844281109     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000155240.05251.D0     Document Type: Article

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