Vagally mediated stabilization: The latest spin on rotors in atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1473-1474

  Skanes, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; INWARD RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ATRIAL EFFECTIVE REFRACTORY PERIOD; ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA REMODELING; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTOR DYNAMICS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 77949530015     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.08.007     Document Type: Editorial

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