Mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias: A dynamical systems-based perspective

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Cherry, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Fenton, Flavio H ^a   Gilmour, Robert F ^a  

^a Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternans; Dynamics; Spiral waves; Ventricle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM ION; CONNEXIN 43; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM ION; SHAL POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER MODEL; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DELAYED AFTERDEPOLARIZATION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART EARLY AFTERDEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SPIRAL WAVE; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84862567980     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00770.2011     Document Type: Review

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