Chronic spinal cord stimulation modifies intrinsic cardiac synaptic efficacy in the suppression of atrial fibrillation

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 186, Issue C, 2014, Pages 38-44

  Ardell, Jeffrey L ^a   Cardinal, René ^b   Beaumont, Eric ^c   Vermeulen, Michel ^b   Smith, Frank M ^d   Andrew Armour, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrial tachyarrhythmia; Heart; Intrinsic cardiac neurons; Neuromodulation; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANINE MODEL; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANGLION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; HEART PROTECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INOTROPISM; INTRINSIC CARDIAC NERVE CELL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STELLATE GANGLION; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DOG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; TIME;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DOGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATORS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STELLATE GANGLION; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84927760981     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2014.09.017     Document Type: Article

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