Cardiac electrophysiology in mice: A matter of size

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 SEP, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kaese, Sven ^a   Verheule, Sander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Atrial fibrillation; Conduction; Mouse; Scaling; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867124087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00345     Document Type: Review

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