Intrinsic left atrial histoanatomy as the basis for reentrant excitation causing atrial fibrillation/flutter in rats

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1342-1348

  Matsuyama, Taka Aki ^a,b   Tanaka, Hideo ^a   Adachi, Tetsuya ^a   Jiang, Yan ^a   Ishibashi Ueda, Hatsue ^b   Takamatsu, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial flutter; Connexin 43; Histology; Left atrium; Optical mapping; Reentry

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CORONARY SINUS; DENSITY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART EXCITATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SINUS NODE CONDUCTION VELOCITY;

AF/AFL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION/FLUTTER; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CONNEXIN 43; CORONARY SINUS; CS; CX43; HISTOLOGY; LA; LEFT ATRIAL/ATRIUM; LEFT ATRIUM; OPTICAL MAPPING; PULMONARY VEIN; PV; RA; REENTRY; RIGHT ATRIAL/ATRIUM;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CONNEXIN 43; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883215863     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.04.021     Document Type: Article

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