Vagal stimulation promotes atrial electrical remodeling induced by rapid atrial pacing in dogs: Evidence of a noncholinergic effect

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1092-1099

  Yang, Donghui ^b   Xi, Yutao ^a   Ai, Tomohiko ^c   Wu, Geru ^a   Sun, Junping ^a   Razavi, Mehdi ^a   Delapasse, Scott ^a   Shurail, Mossaib ^a   Gao, Lianjun ^c   Mathuria, Nilesh ^a   Elayda, MacArthur ^a   Cheng, Jie ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THE SECOND HOSPITAL OF JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

atrium; electrophysiology; remodeling; vagus nerve; vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE ANTAGONIST;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM ELECTRICAL REMODELING; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SINUS RHYTHM; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS TONE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ATROPINE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DOGS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; MALE; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 80052532388     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2011.03133.x     Document Type: Article

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