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Science 24 October 1958:
Vol. 128. no. 3330, pp. 1003 - 1005
DOI: 10.1126/science.128.3330.1003-a
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Radio Control of Ventricular Contraction in Experimental Heart Block

M. VERZEANO 1, R. C. WEBB JR. 1, and M. KELLY 1

1 Departments of Biophysics and Surgery, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles

This report describes a method for the stimulation of the ventricular myocardium by transmitting the stimulus over a radio-frequency carrier which is demodulated by a radio receiver enclosed within the animal's chest. The method can be applied in conjunction with experimental heart block.


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