in left human atrium: a potential contributor to atrial ectopy
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If in left human atrium: a potential contributor to atrial ectopy.
OBJECTIVE The left human atrium plays an important role in initiation of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the hyperpolarization activated cation current (I(f)) is a candidate for contributing to abnormal automaticity. However, electrophysiological data concerning I(f) are not available in this cardiac region and we therefore investigated I(f) in human left atrial tissue. METHODS Human atrial myoc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cardiovascular Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0008-6363
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.07.001