Calcium transient dynamics and the mechanisms of ventricular vulnerability to single premature electrical stimulation in Langendorff-perfused rabbit ventricles

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-123

  Hayashi, Hideki ^a   Kamanu, Santosh Dora ^a   Ono, Norihiko ^a   Kawase, Ayaka ^a   Chou, Chung Chuan ^a   Weiss, James N ^b   Karagueuzian, Hrayr S ^a,b   Lin, Shien Fong ^a,b,c   Chen, Peng Sheng ^a,b,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Electrical stimulation; Mapping; Reentry; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HYPOTHESIS; ISOLATED HEART; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PERFUSION; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 37549026773     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.08.020     Document Type: Article

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