The effect of gap junctional distribution on defibrillation
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
- Vol. 8 (1) , 175-187
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.166296
Abstract
We summarize a mathematical theory for direct activation and defibrillation of cardiac tissue. We show that the direct stimulus and defibrillation thresholds are likely to be strongly affected by the gap junctional distribution and density, suggesting an indirect experimental test of the theory. (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.Keywords
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