Heart rate control via vagus nerve stimulation

Neuromodulation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 214-220

  Buschman, Hendrik P ^a,b   Storm, Corstiaan J ^c   Duncker, Dirk J ^d   Verdouw, Pieter D ^d   Van Der Aa, Hans E ^a   Van Der Kemp, Peter ^e  

^a MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Foundation for Aviation Medicine Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Heart rate; Implantable helical lead; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE; SILICONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RR INTERVAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SWINE; TACHYCARDIA; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 33845651414     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2006.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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