Electromechanical wavebreak in a model of the human left ventricle

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Keldermann, R H ^a   Nash, M P ^b   Gelderblom, H ^c   Wang, V Y ^b   Panfilov, A V ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Electrophysiology; Mechanics; Mechanoelectrical feedback; Stretch activated channels; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEART EXCITATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOGS; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77953796059     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00862.2009     Document Type: Article

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