Manifestation of automaticity in the pulmonary-vein myocardium of rats with abdominal aorto-venocaval shunt

• Main Authors: Shogo Hamaguchi (Author), Yayoi Tsuneoka (Author), Ayumi Tanaka (Author), Masahiko Irie (Author), Masato Tsuruta (Author), Takahiro Nakayama (Author), Iyuki Namekata (Author), Mizuki Nada (Author), Megumi Aimoto (Author), Akira Takahara (Author), Hikaru Tanaka (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Effect of abdominal aorto-venocaval shunt (AVS) on the automaticity of the pulmonary-vein myocardium was studied in the rat. Spontaneous electrical activity was observed in one third of the isolated pulmonary-vein preparations from the AVS rats, but scarcely in those from sham-operated rats; the act...