Restoring heart function and electrical integrity: closing the circuit
npj Regenerative Medicine, 2017 Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in the world and are often associated with the occurrence of arrhythmias due to disruption of myocardial electrical integrity.
Luís Miguel Monteiro +4 more
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Anatomic-electrophysiological correlations concerning the pathways for atrioventricular conduction. [PDF]
, 2001 The remarkable success of radiofrequency ablation in recent decades in curing atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardias has intensified efforts to provide a solid theoretical basis for understanding the mechanisms of atrioventricular transmission ...
Anderson, RH, Ho, SY, Mazgalev, TN
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Erbb2 is required for cardiac atrial electrical activity during development.
PLoS ONE, 2014 The heart is the first organ required to function during embryonic development and is absolutely necessary for embryo survival. Cardiac activity is dependent on both the sinoatrial node (SAN), which is the pacemaker of heart's electrical activity, and ...
Gennadiy Tenin +7 more
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Syncytium calcium signaling and macrophage function in the heart
Cell & Bioscience, 2018 Macrophages are traditionally viewed as a key component of the immunity defense system. Recent studies have identified resident macrophages in multiple organs including the heart, in which the cells perform their crucial role on tissue repair after ...
Xin Zhou +12 more
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Nonlinear physics of electrical wave propagation in the heart: a review [PDF]
, 2016 The beating of the heart is a synchronized contraction of muscle cells (myocytes) that are triggered by a periodic sequence of electrical waves (action potentials) originating in the sino-atrial node and propagating over the atria and the ventricles ...
Alonso Muñoz, Sergio +2 more
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Identifying the evolutionary building blocks of the cardiac conduction system.
PLoS ONE, 2012 The endothermic state of mammals and birds requires high heart rates to accommodate the high rates of oxygen consumption. These high heart rates are driven by very similar conduction systems consisting of an atrioventricular node that slows the ...
Bjarke Jensen +7 more
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Early experience with permanent pacemaker implantation at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Artificial pacemakers generate electrical impulses and regulate the heart´s conduction system. They are often used to treat individuals with bradycardia. Permanent pacemaker implantation is a lifesaving procedure especially in patients with
Uvie Ufuoma Onakpoya +4 more
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Predictive factors of atrioventricular conduction disorders [PDF]
Romanian Medical JournalAtrioventricular conduction disorders represent an alteration in the normal function of the heart’s electrical conduction system, a system that connects the atria and ventricles through the atrio-ventricular node and the His-Purkinje system. Consequently,
Carmen Marina Deutsch +2 more
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Modeling the Heart as a Communication System [PDF]
, 2014 Electrical communication between cardiomyocytes can be perturbed during arrhythmia, but these perturbations are not captured by conventional electrocardiographic metrics.
Aguilar-Rodríguez, José +7 more
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The effects of repetitive electric cardiac stimulation in dogs with normal hearts, complete heart block and experimental cardiac arrest [PDF]
, 1955 Direct cardiac stimulation was conducted in the open chest. In normal animals, auricular stimulation at frequencies faster than the spontaneous rate caused little change in vascular pressures or cardiac output.
GAERTNER, RA, STARZL, TE, WEBB, RC
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