Sympathetic neural activity and the pathogenesis of sudden cardiac death

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 140-141

  Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EDITORIAL; HEART DENERVATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SPIKE; STELLATE GANGLION; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 37549045632     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.10.039     Document Type: Editorial

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