T-wave alternans and arrhythmogenesis in cardiac diseases

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 1 NOV, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Qu, Zhilin ^a   Xie, Yuanfang ^a   Garfinkel, Alan ^a   Weiss, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Afterdepolarizations; Arrhythmias; Calcium cycling; Cardiac diseases; Restitution; T wave alternans

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053581989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2010.00154     Document Type: Article

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