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Dispersion-based reentry: mechanism of initiation of ventricular tachycardia in isolated rabbit hearts
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Academic Journal
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The American Journal of Physiology. Feb, 1999, Vol. 276 Issue 2, pH413, 1 p.
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0002-9513
Abstract
Functional conduction block facilitating the occurrence of re-entry in rabbit left ventricular epicardium may be initiated by shortening, especially by dispersion of refractoriness during infusion of potassium-channel openers. This is the implication of an experiment that aims to determine whether facilitation of re-entry by potassium-channel openers is related to dispersion of refractoriness and/or modification of anisotropic properties of the ventricular myocardium.