Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: Just a matter of nerves?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-211

  Allessie, Maurits ^a   Schotten, Ulrich ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; EDITORIAL; EXTRASYSTOLE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; REFRACTORY PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RR INTERVAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARBACHOL; DOGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 31444445215     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.12.005     Document Type: Editorial

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