Mechanisms of ventricular rate adaptation as a predictor of arrhythmic risk

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Pueyo, Esther ^a,b,c   Husti, Zoltán ^d   Hornyik, Tibor ^d,e   Baczkó, István ^d   Laguna, Pablo ^b,c   Varró, András ^d,e   Rodríguez, Blanca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Arrhythmia; Computers; Ion channels; Ventricles

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENDOCARDIUM; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPICARDIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RECORDING; RISK; SODIUM CELL LEVEL; TRIANGULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNELS; DOGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; KINETICS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SODIUM; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE;

EID: 77951815745     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00936.2009     Document Type: Article

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