Autonomic control and innervation of the atrioventricular junctional pacemaker

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1326-1335

  Hucker, William J ^a   Nikolski, Vladimir P ^a   Efimov, Igor R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node; Autonomic nervous system; Junctional pacemaker; Junctional rhythm; Optical mapping

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NADOLOL; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HIS BUNDLE ELECTROGRAM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; SINUS NODE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RABBITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SINOATRIAL NODE; SOFTWARE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC JUNCTIONAL; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34648831228     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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