Electrotonic influences on action potential duration dispersion in small hearts: A simulation study

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 289, Issue 1 58-1, 2005, Pages

  Sampson, Kevin J ^a   Henriquez, Craig S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Repolarization heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART BLOCK; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART SIZE; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; MICE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RABBITS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 21644451726     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00507.2004     Document Type: Article

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