Intermittent left cervical vagal nerve stimulation damages the stellate ganglia and reduces the ventricular rate during sustained atrial fibrillation in ambulatory dogs.

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Published in Heart Rhythm on December 01, 2015

Authors

Kroekkiat Chinda1, Wei-Chung Tsai2, Yi-Hsin Chan3, Andrew Y-T Lin4, Jheel Patel4, Ye Zhao5, Alex Y Tan6, Mark J Shen4, Hongbo Lin7, Changyu Shen7, Nipon Chattipakorn8, Michael Rubart-von der Lohe9, Lan S Chen10, Michael C Fishbein11, Shien-Fong Lin12, Zhenhui Chen4, Peng-Sheng Chen13

Author Affiliations

1: The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Cardiac Electrophysiology Research and Training Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand.
2: The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
3: The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Division of Cardiology, The First Department of Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
4: The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
5: The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, People's Republic of China.
6: Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
7: Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine and the Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana.
8: Cardiac Electrophysiology Research and Training Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
9: Department of Pediatrics, Riley Heart Research Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.
10: The Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
11: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
12: The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.
13: The Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana. Electronic address: chenpp@iu.edu.

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