Autonomic remodeling in the left atrium and pulmonary veins in heart failure creation of a dynamic substrate for atrial fibrillation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 388-396

  Ng, Jason ^a   Villuendas, Roger ^a   Cokic, Ivan ^a   Schliamser, Jorge E ^a   Gordon, David ^a   Koduri, Hemanth ^a   Benefield, Brandon ^a   Simon, Julia ^a   Murthy, S N Prasanna ^a   Lomasney, Jon W ^a   Wasserstrom, J Andrew ^a   Goldberger, Jeffrey J ^a   Aistrup, Gary L ^a   Arora, Rishi ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ATROPINE; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ISOPRENALINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPLANT; GANGLION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 80052337070     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.959650     Document Type: Article

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