Shift in the pattern of autonomic atrial innervation in subjects with persistent atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1357-1363

  Deneke, Thomas ^a,b   Chaar, Huda ^a   De Groot, Joris R ^c   Wilde, Arthur A ^c   Lawo, Thomas ^a   Mundig, Johanna ^d   Bösche, Leif ^a   Mügge, Andreas ^a   Grewe, Peter H ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Histopathology

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATED HEART; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; AUTOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE;

EID: 84855503656     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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