The role of transmural ventricular heterogeneities in cardiac vulnerability to electric shocks

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 96, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 321-338

  Maharaj, Thushka ^a   Blake, Robert ^b   Trayanova, Natalia ^c   Gavaghan, David ^a   Rodriguez, Blanca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidomain simulations; Transmural electrophysiological heterogeneities; Vulnerability to electric shocks

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOVERSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 43049123835     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2007.07.017     Document Type: Review

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