Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 11 , Pages 1641-1649 , November 2009

Effects of fibroblast-myocyte coupling on cardiac conduction and vulnerability to reentry: A computational study

  • Yuanfang Xie, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine-Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California
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  • Alan Garfinkel, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine-Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California
    • Department of Physiological Science, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Patrizia Camelliti, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Peter Kohl, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • James N. Weiss, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine-Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California
    • Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Zhilin Qu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine-Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Zhilin Qu, Ph.D., Department of Medicine-Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, A2-237 CHS, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095

Received 12 May 2009 ,Accepted 1 August 2009.

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 This work was supported by National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant no. P01 HL078931 and by the Laubisch and Kawata Endowments. PK is a Senior Research Fellow of the British Heart Foundation.

PII: S1547-5271(09)00833-9

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.08.003

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 11 , Pages 1641-1649 , November 2009

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