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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2012

Non-linear dynamics of cardiac alternans: subcellular to tissue-level mechanisms of arrhythmia.

Stephen A Gaeta, David J Christini

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Overview of Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatment Strategies.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  11. Membrane potential determines calcium alternans through modulation of SR CaJournal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2017
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  12. Alternans in atria: Mechanisms and clinical relevance.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2017
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  16. Ion channels under the sun.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2014
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  17. Calcium alternans in cardiac myocytes: order from disorder.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen A GaetaDepartment of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY, USA.
David J Christini
Cornell University · US

Funding

Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering MST ProgramT32GM007739 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI HSU, KATHARINE C · 1985 to 2023
$51.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007739
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac repolarization alternans is a rhythm disturbance of the heart in which rapid stimulation elicits a beat-to-beat alternation in the duration of action potentials and magnitude of intracellular calcium transients in individual cardiac myocytes. Although this phenomenon has been identified as a potential precursor to dangerous reentrant arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, significant uncertainty remains regarding its mechanism and no clinically practical means of halting its occurrence or progression currently exists. Cardiac alternans has well-characterized tissue, cellular, and subcellular manifestations, the mechanisms and interplay of which are an active area of research.

Indexed as

calcium handlingcardiac alternanspattern formationrepolarization alternanssubcellular alternansT-wave alternans

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PMID22783195
PMCPMC3389489
OpenAlexW1966745421

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