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Science 9 November 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4419, pp. 695 - 697
DOI: 10.1126/science.493975
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Science, Vol 206, Issue 4419, 695-697
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

articles

Phase resetting and annihilation of pacemaker activity in cardiac tissue

J Jalife and C Antzelevitch

Spontaneous rhythmic activity in isolated cardiac pacemaker cells can be terminated by a brief, subthreshold, depolarizing or hyperpolarizing perturbation of the proper magnitude applied at a specific point in the pacemaker cycle. Evidence is provided in support of a topological theory of the existence of a "singular" point in cardiac oscillators.


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