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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 84, Issue 18, Pages 4248-4251Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4248
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Levels of intracellular Ca2+ were monitored using fluorescence from Ca2+-sensitive dyes in chick embryonic heart cells cultured in an annular geometry. There was spontaneous starting and stopping of reentrant waves of activity. The results are modeled using modified FitzHugh-Nagumo equations representing pacemakers embedded in a conducting medium. These results provide a potential mechanism for spontaneous abnormal cardiac rhythms in which there are rapid heart beats (tachycardias) that repetitively start and stop.
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