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New Mechanism of Spiral Wave Initiation in a Reaction-Diffusion-Mechanics System

Spiral wave initiation in the heart muscle is a mechanism for the onset of dangerous cardiac arrhythmias. A standard protocol for spiral wave initiation is the application of a stimulus in the refractory tail of a propagating excitation wave, a region that we call the “classical vulnerable zone.” Pr...

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Autores principales: Weise, Louis D., Panfilov, Alexander V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3215707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22114667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027264