Cardiac dynamics during daily torpor in the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Mertens, Alexander ^a   Stiedl, Oliver ^b   Steinlechner, Stephan ^c   Meyer, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Conduction; Electrophysiology; Hibernation

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RATE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; METABOLIC RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; TACHYCARDIA; TELEMETRY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD; CRICETINAE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HIBERNATION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PHODOPUS;

EID: 38949198314     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00496.2007     Document Type: Article

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