New aspects of vulnerability in heterogenous models of ventricular wall and its modulation by loss of cardiac sodium channel function

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 387-394

  Kapela, A ^a,b   Tsoukias, N ^b   Bezerianos, Anastosios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia mechanisms; Computer modeling; Heterogenous models; Sodium channel; Vulnerable period

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODULATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION (APD); CARDIAC VENTRICULAR WALL; SODIUM CHANNEL FUNCTION (NALOF); VULNERABLE PERIOD (VP);

SODIUM;

SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ARRHYTHMIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 22544448089     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345817     Document Type: Article

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