Contributions of Purkinje-myocardial coupling to suppression and facilitation of early afterdepolarization-induced triggered activity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1522-1531

  Schafferhofer Steltzer, Ingrid ^a   Hofer, Ernst ^a,e   Huelsing, Delilah J ^b   Bishop, Sanford P ^c   Pollard, Andrew E ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d and Radiation Oncology   (United States)

^e Austrian Society of Biomedical Engineering   (Austria)

Author keywords

Extracellular mapping; Functional coupling; Isoproterenol; Source sink interactions; Specialized conduction system

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION (APD); PURKINJE-MYOCARDIAL COUPLING; PURKINJE-VENTRICULAR JUNCTIONS (PVJS); RIGHT VENTRICULE;

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

CALCIUM; ISOPRENALINE; POTASSIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PURKINJE FIBER; RABBIT; RECORDING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PURKINJE FIBERS; RABBITS;

EID: 26844449563     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.851528     Document Type: Article

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