Increase in vulnerability of atrial fibrillation in an acute intermittent hypoxia model: Importance of autonomic imbalance

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 148-153

  Lu, Zhibing ^a,b   Nie, Li ^a   He, Bo ^a   Yu, Lilei ^a   Salim, Mohamed ^a   Huang, Bing ^a   Cui, Bo ^a   He, Wenbo ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a  

^a RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Central Hospital of Huangshi   (China)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

ACUTE INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC IMBALANCE; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PH; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VENTILATOR; WINDOW OF VULNERABILITY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; MALE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 84883781601     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2013.03.014     Document Type: Article

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