Title | Cardiac Electrophysiology, Circulation, and Transport [electronic resource] / edited by Samuel Sideman, Rafael Beyar, Andrรฉ G. Klรฉber |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1991 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3894-3 |
Descript | XX, 387 p. online resource |
Modeling of Electrical Activity and Propagation -- 1 A Cellular Activation Model Based on Macroscopic Fields -- 2 Modeling of Cellular and Intercellular Propagation -- 3 Anisotropic Conduction and Inhomogeneity in Refractoriness -- 4 Different Mechanisms for Reentry in the Epicardial Border Zone of Healing Canine Infarcts: The Roles of Functional and Anatomical Conduction Block -- 5 Effects of Intercellular Resistive Coupling on Action Potential Initiation -- 6 Reentry of Cardiac Excitation: A Simulation Study -- 7 Conduction Velocity Variability in the Ischemic Myocardium as the Cause of Reentrant Arrhythmias -- Propagation of the Cardiac Impulse -- 8 Determinants of Action Potential Transfer From Cell to Cell -- 9 The Effect of the Finite Extracellular Resistance on Impulse Conduction in the Ventricular Myocardium -- 10 The Effects of Potassium on Anisotropic Conduction -- 11 Effect of Ryanodine and Other Modulators of Intracellular Calcium on Impulse Propagation During Simulated Ischemia -- 12 Low Dimensional Chaos and the Transition From Rhythmic to Arrhythmic Behavior in Cardiac Tissue -- 13 Fractal Mechanisms in Cardiac Electrophysiology -- Cell Physiology and Pathophysiology -- 14 Cardiac Sodium Channel Kinetics -- 15 Regulation of Cationic Flux Through Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum -- 16 Voltage Clamp Tests of a Model of Calcium Handling by Myocardial Cells -- 17 Modulation of Ventricular Impulse Initiation and Repolarization by Sympathetic Innervation -- 18 Relating Membrane Receptors to Drugs -- 19 ExcitationโContraction Coupling in Stunned Myocardium -- 20 Biochemical Mechanisms Contributing to Arrhythmogenesis During Ischemia -- 21 The Control of Cardiac Adenine Nucleotides: The Discovery and Potential Function of HighโEnergy Oligomeric Derivatives of ATP -- 22 On the Contractile Mechanism in Cardiac Muscle -- Myocardial Mechanics -- 23 Modeling the Effect of Contractility on Distribution of Coronary Flow -- 24 Intramyocardial Pressure Revisited -- 25 On the Mechanism of Transmural Myocardial Compression and Perfusion -- Circulation and Coronary Flow -- 26 A Model for Disturbed Coronary Artery Flow with Phonocardiography Verification -- 27 Left Ventricular Pressure Versus Contractility as Causes for Pulsatile Coronary Flow -- 28 Are Flow Transport Capacities and Metabolic Requirements Matched Regionally in the Myocardium? -- 29 Diminished Tolerance to Ischemia of Hypertrophied Hearts -- 30 Capillary Growth in Normal and Hypertrophic Heart -- Myocardial Metabolism and Energetics -- 31 Myocardial Blood Flow and Oxidative Metabolism Findings in Normal and Diseased Myocardium -- 32 Oxidative Substrate Metabolism in Reperfused Myocardium -- 33 The Role of Driving Forces in Myocardial Energy Metabolism and Transport Processes -- 34 The Effect of Exogenous Lactate and Pyruvate on Triacylglycerol Turnover in the Normoxic Heart -- General Discussion -- 35 General Discussion: Propagation and Arrhythmias