Mechanisms of conduction slowing during myocardial stretch by ventricular volume loading in the rabbit

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Mills, Robert W ^a,d   Narayan, Sanjiv M ^b,c,d   McCulloch, Andrew D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical constants; Mechanoelectric feedback; Membrane capacitance; Resting membrane potential; Stretch activated channels

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIBER; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; ISOLATED HEART; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD VESSEL CAPACITANCE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VOLUME; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CARDIAC VOLUME; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GADOLINIUM; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; POTASSIUM; RABBITS; VASCULAR CAPACITANCE;

EID: 54049104464     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00350.2008     Document Type: Article

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