Vagal stimulation markedly suppresses arrhythmias in conscious rats with chronic heart failure after myocardial infarction

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 7072-7075

  Zheng, Can ^a   Li, Meihua ^a   Inagaki, Masashi ^a   Kawada, Toru ^a   Sunagawa, Kenji ^b   Sugimachi, Masaru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREMATURE VENTRICULAR CONTRACTION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR CONTRACTION;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846937878     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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