The role of pulmonary veins vs. autonomic ganglia in different experimental substrates of canine atrial fibrillation

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 825-833

  Nishida, Kunihiro ^a,b   Maguy, Ange ^a   Sakabe, Masao ^a,b   Comtois, Philippe ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^b   Nattel, Stanley ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Animal model; Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT M PROTEIN; NEUROMODULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BRADYCARDIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 79951936008     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvq332     Document Type: Article

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