The heart on a chip: The role of realistic mathematical models of cardiac electrical activity in understanding and treating cardiac arrhythmias

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 779-780

  Nattel, Stanley ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; ISOLEUCINE; SODIUM CHANNEL; VALINE;

BIOENERGY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; ION CURRENT; ION TRANSPORT; LONG QT SYNDROME; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLES; LONG QT SYNDROME; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 34249806327     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.03.038     Document Type: Editorial

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