The arterial blood supply to the canine AV (atrioventricular) node mainly through the posterior septal artery has been confirmed by LUMB et al.1) and later by JAMES2), while a considerable part of the interventricular septum is supplied by the anterior septal artery.WEST at al.8 described a technique for the catheterization of individual branches of the coronary artery in intact dogs which perm...

acute yew (taxus baccata) intoxication was induced in 7 adult sheep by oral administration of the plant materials at the dose of 2.5g/kg body weight. blood samples for hematology and serum biochemistry were collected before and after the induced intoxication.electrocardiography was performed using a base-apex lead. intoxicated animals displayed lethargy, depression, bradycardia and varying inte...

To evaluate the role of perinodal tissue in the genesis of atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentry, echo beats were induced by programmed stimulation in nine superfused rabbit atrial-atrioventricular nodal preparations. In these preparations, extracellular bipolar electrograms were recorded simultaneously from the crista terminalis, interatrial septum arid His bundle, along with microelectrode acti...

The anatomical atrioventricular node was first described by Tawara in 1906.1 Although some surmised the node to be the region responsible for delay between contraction of atria and ventricles, Erlanger in 1912 localized the major portion of delay to a latency at the transition between atrial and nodal fibers.2 Nearly a century of research on properties of the atrioventricular (AV) node has subs...

introduction: previous studies have indicated a relationship between mptp pore and av nodal rate-dependent properties. the aim of present study was to determine acute direct effects of cyclosporine on extracellular field potential of isolated rabbit av node during experimental atrial fibrillation. methods: in one group of male new zealand rabbits (1.5-2.5 kg) cumulative concentrations of cyclos...

Amiodarone was selectively perfused into the sinus node artery and atrioventricular node artery of 51 dogs. Amiodarone had an immediate negative chronotropic and dromotropic effect. Threshold concentration was 2.5 micrograms/ml. 25 and 50 micrograms/ml of amiodarone injected into the sinus node artery slowed the heart by 25.6 +/- 3.1 and 33.7 +/- 2.6 beats/min (mean +/- 1 SEM), respectively. Am...

cardiac conduction system enables the heart to pulsate continuously by producing electric impulse and conducting it. as the anatomical information about cardiac conduction system in human being and other mammals needed in various fields of sciences, such as anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology and cardiology, the present review article intends to provide this basic information about an imp...

BACKGROUND Atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentrant tachycardia is classically described as a reentrant rhythm entirely contained within the compact AV node. Although the concepts of longitudinal dissociation of two intranodal pathways and a distal common pathway are accepted, the proximal portion of the circuit remains undefined. Current reports suggest that the two pathways may be separable by a...

The mechanisms responsible for atrioventricular (AV) delay remain unclear, in part due to the inability to map electrical activity by conventional microelectrode techniques. In this study, voltage-sensitive dyes and imaging techniques were refined to detect action potentials (APs) from the small cells comprising the AV node and to map activation from the "compact" node. Optical APs (124) were r...