Exploring susceptibility to atrial and ventricular arrhythmias resulting from remodeling of the passive electrical properties in the heart: A simulation approach

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue Nov, 2014, Pages

  Trayanova, Natalia A ^a   Boyle, Patrick M ^a   Arevalo, Hermenegild J ^a   Zahid, Sohail ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Computer modeling; Fibrosis; Infarct; Structural remodeling

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE SWITCHING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW;

EID: 84911893021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00435     Document Type: Review

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