Racing to the flatline: heart rate and β-adrenergic stimulation quicken the pace

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia; and phymwk@gwu.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia; and.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Birmingham, Alabama.

Editorial

Matthew Kay et al. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2015.

. 2015 May 1;308(9):H977-9.

doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00154.2015. Epub 2015 Mar 13.

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia; and phymwk@gwu.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia; and.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Birmingham, Alabama.

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Comment on

β-Adrenergic stimulation and rapid pacing mutually promote heterogeneous electrical failure and ventricular fibrillation in the globally ischemic heart.
Garg V, Taylor T, Warren M, Venable P, Sciuto K, Shibayama J, Zaitsev A. Garg V, et al. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2015 May 1;308(9):H1155-70. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00768.2014. Epub 2015 Feb 20. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2015. PMID: 25713306 Free PMC article.

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