Cardiac Electrophysiology Methods and Models

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sigg, Daniel C. (Editor), Iaizzo, Paul A. (Editor), Xiao, Yong-Fu. (Editor), He, Bin. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6658-2

Biomedical, pharmaceutical and medical personnel are interested in studying aspects of arrhythmias at a basic, translational and applied level. The overall understanding of the molecular basis of disease has dramatically increased, as well as the number of available and emerging molecular, pharmacol...

Table of Contents:

• Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: An Overview of its Evolution
• Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology: Excitable Membranes
• Cardiac Action Potentials and Gap Junctions
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiac Conduction System
• The Electrocardiogram and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
• Principles of Electrophysiological In Vitro Measurements
• Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiological Modeling
• Computer Modeling of Electrical Activation: From Cellular Dynamics to the Whole Heart
• Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Ion Channels
• Cell Culture Models and Methods
• Isolated Tissue Models
• Isolated Heart Models
• Small Animal Models for Arrhythmia Studies
• The Use of Large Animal Models for Cardiac Electrophysiology Studies
• Optical Mapping and Calcium Imaging
• Electrophysiology of Single Cardiomyocytes: Patch Clamp and Other Recording Methods
• Invasive Electroanatomical Mapping and Navigation
• Cardiac Electrophysiological ImagingSolving the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography
• Traditional Electrophysiological Mapping
• Cardiac Imaging for Electrophysiology
• Introduction to Translational Research
• Clinical PerspectiveElectrophysiology in the Young and Patients with Congenital Heart Disease
• Index.