Experimental and theoretical ventricular electrograms and their relation to electrophysiological gradients in the adult rat heart

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Dos Santos, Rodrigo Weber ^a   Nygren, Anders ^b   Campos, Fernando Otaviano ^a,c   Koch, Hans ^d   Giles, Wayne R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Electrocardiogram; Mathematical models; Potassium currents; Voltage sensitive dyes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPOLARIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERFUSION; PERICARDIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 70349611558     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01066.2008     Document Type: Article

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