Reion of slowed conduction acts as core for spiral wave reentry in cardiac cell monolayers

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lin, Joyce W ^a   Garber, Libet ^a   Qi, Yue Rosa ^a   Chang, Marvin G ^a   Cysyk, Joshua ^a   Tung, Leslie ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cell culture; Heterogeneity; Optical mapping

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PALMITOLEIC ACID; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; HEART VENTRICLES; LIDOCAINE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38149056360     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00631.2007     Document Type: Article

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