A spontaneously active focus drives a model atrial sheet more easily than a model ventricular sheet.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Joyner, Ronald W.; Wang, Yang-Gan
- Source
- American Journal of Physiology: Heart & Circulatory Physiology. Aug2000, Vol. 279 Issue 2, pH752. 12p. 9 Graphs.
- Subject
- *HEART cells
*HEART ventricles
*CYTOLOGY
- Language
- ISSN
- 0363-6135
Presents information on a study which investigated the critical size of an automatic focus for the activation of two-dimensional arrays made up of either ventricular or atrial model cells. Comparison of activation of a sheet of atrial or ventricular models by a real focus cell; Methodology; Results and discussion.