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Methods Inf Med 1997; 36(04/05): 290-293
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1636861
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Entrainment and Annihilation of Reentrant Excitation in a Periodically Stimulated Ring of Excitable Media

T. Nomura
1   Department of Biophysical Engineering, Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
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L. Glass
2   Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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19 February 2018 (online)

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Abstract:

Excitable media, such as nerve, heart and the Belousov-Zhabo- tinsky reaction, exhibit a large excursion from equilibrium in response to a small but finite perturbation. Assuming a one-dimensional ring geometry of sufficient length, excitable media support a periodic wave of circulation. As in the periodic stimulation of oscillations in ordinary differential equations, the effects of periodic stimuli of the periodically circulating wave can be described by a one-dimensional Poincaré map. Depending on the period and intensity of the stimulus as well as its initial phase, either entrainment or termination of the original circulating wave is observed. These phenomena are directly related to clinical observations concerning periodic stimulation of a class of cardiac arrhythmias caused by reentrant wave propagation in the human heart.

Keywords:

Cardiac Tachycardias - Excitable Media - Reentry - Wave Propagation
 

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