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ReviewAnnual review of physiology2015

Mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias: from molecular fluctuations to electrical turbulence.

Zhilin Qu, James N Weiss

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Review in Annual review of physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zhilin QuDepartments of 1Medicine (Cardiology) and.
James N Weiss

Funding

WAVE DYNAMICS IN NORMAL AND DISEASED RABBIT HEARTSP01HL078931 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CHEN, PENG-SHENG · 2005 to 2015
$20.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL078931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ventricular arrhythmias have complex causes and mechanisms. Despite extensive investigation involving many clinical, experimental, and computational studies, effective biological therapeutics are still very limited. In this article, we review our current understanding of the mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias by summarizing the state of knowledge spanning from the molecular scale to electrical wave behavior at the tissue and organ scales and how the complex nonlinear interactions integrate into the dynamics of arrhythmias in the heart. We discuss the challenges that we face in synthesizing these dynamics to develop safe and effective novel therapeutic approaches.

Indexed as

Cardiac ElectrophysiologyAction PotentialsAnimalsArrhythmias, CardiacBrugada SyndromeCalcium SignalingCardiac Conduction System DiseaseDisease Models, AnimalHeart Conduction SystemHumansIon ChannelsSignal TransductionVentricular DysfunctionIon Channelschaosmultiscale dynamicsnonlinear dynamicssudden cardiac deathventricular arrhythmias

Identifiers

PMID25340965
PMCPMC4342983

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