Beat-to-beat QT variability and cardiac autonomic regulation

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Malik, Marek ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b St Paul's Cardiac Electrophysiology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INDEX; HEART RATE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HYSTERESIS; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; QT INTERVAL; QT VARIABILITY; QT VARIABILITY INEX; RR INTERVAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS;

EID: 54049127019     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00709.2008     Document Type: Editorial

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