Autonomic Innervation and Segmental Muscular Disconnections at the Human Pulmonary Vein-Atrial Junction. Implications for Catheter Ablation of Atrial-Pulmonary Vein Junction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 132-143

  Tan, Alex Y ^a   Li, Hongmei ^a   Wachsmann Hogiu, Sebastian ^b   Chen, Lan S ^c   Chen, Peng Sheng ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^d  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; AUTONOMIC NERVE; AUTOPSY; CATHETER ABLATION; CELIAC GANGLION; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG VEIN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 33745464758     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.02.054     Document Type: Article

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