Influence of transmural repolarization gradients on the electrophysiology and pharmacology of ventricular myocardium. Cellular basis for the Brugada and long-QT syndromes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1783, 2001, Pages 1201-1216

  Antzelevitch, C ^a   Nesterenko, V V ^a   Muzikant, A L ^a   Rice, J J ^a   Chen, G ^a   Colatsky, T ^a  

^a MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmia; Electrophysiology; Heterogeneity; M cells; Mathematical modelling; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

EID: 67049171081     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2001.0826     Document Type: Review

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