Epicardial neural ganglionated plexus of ovine heart: Anatomic basis for experimental cardiac electrophysiology and nerve protective cardiac surgery

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 942-950

  Saburkina, Inga ^a   Rysevaite, Kristina ^a   Pauziene, Neringa ^a   Mischke, Karl ^b   Schauerte, Patrick ^b   Jalife, José ^c   Pauza, Dainius H ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Autonomic ganglia; Extrinsic and intrinsic cardiac neural plexus; Heart innervation; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ROOT; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; BRAIN VEIN; CAVA VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY SINUS; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; GANGLION; HEART; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART NERVE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LAMB; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE PLEXUS; NERVE ROOT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY VEIN; SHEEP; SINUS NODE; SPECIES; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THORAX; TOPOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AZYGOS VEIN; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERICARDIUM; SHEEP; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 77953869245     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.02.036     Document Type: Article

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