ROLE OF CONDUCTION IN THE GENESIS OF ALTERNANS OF ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION IN A SIMULATED ONE DIMENSIONAL FIBER

Ventricular fibrillation is one of the leading causes for Sudden Cardiac Death and is characterized by multiple activation wavefronts. Multiple activation wavefronts originate from a reentrant circuit which requires the presence of a unidirectional block in the path of a propagating excitation wave....

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Main Author: Ramalingam, Sanjiv
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2007
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/442
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1445&context=gradschool_theses