Concealed conduction in nodal dual pathways: Depressed conduction, prolonged refractoriness, or reset excitability cycle?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 212-221

  Xu, Bochun ^a   Billette, Jacques ^a   Lavallée, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conduction; Electrotonic modulation; Fast pathway; Refractoriness; Slow pathway

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; CONDITIONING; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; RABBITS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 31444454728     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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