Regional differences in rabbit atrial action potential properties: Mechanisms, consequences and pharmacological implications

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 141-144

  Aslanidi, Oleg V ^a   Dewey, Rebecca S ^a   Morgan, Alexandra R ^a   Boyett, Mark R ^b   Zhang, Henggui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL CELLS; ATRIAL TISSUES; MAJOR FACTORS; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHANNEL GATING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RABBITS;

EID: 61849133290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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