Sympathetic Innervation, Denervation, and Cardiac Arrhythmias

Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside: Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 409-417

  Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Ajijola, Olujimi A ^a   Mahajan, Aman ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4557-2856-5.00041-8     Document Type: Chapter

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