Heart rate variability: Are there complex patterns

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 JUL, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tan, Can Ozan ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTROPY; FETUS DISTRESS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RR INTERVAL; STELLATE GANGLION; TACHYCARDIA; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS TONE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84884558351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00165     Document Type: Article

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