Mechanism of reentry induction by a 9-V battery in rabbit ventricles

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Bishop, Martin J ^a   Burton, Rebecca A B ^b   Kalla, Manish ^b   Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy ^c   Plank, Gernot ^d   Bub, Gil ^b   Vigmond, Edward J ^e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Bidomain; Cardiac modeling; Optical mapping; Reentry; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLE; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRODE; EX VIVO STUDY; EXTRASYSTOLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART; HEART BEAT; HEART EXCITATION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SIMULATION; SINUS RHYTHM;

BIDOMAIN; CARDIAC MODELING; OPTICAL MAPPING; REENTRY; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIASTOLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERICARDIUM; RABBITS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TACHYCARDIA, RECIPROCATING; TIME FACTORS; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84900538844     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00591.2013     Document Type: Article

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