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The role of the autonomic nervous system in cardiac arrhythmias: The neuro-cardiac axis, more foe than friend?
Trends in cardiovascular medicine - 1 Jul 2021
Manolis Antonis A, Manolis Theodora A, Apostolopoulos Evdoxia J, Apostolaki Naomi E, Melita Helen, Manolis Antonis S
Abstract excerpt
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) with its two limbs, the sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS), plays a critical role in the modulation of cardiac arrhythmogenesis. It can be both pro- and/or anti-arrhythmic at both the atrial and ventricular level of the myocardium. Intricate mechanisms, different for specific cardiac arrhythmias, are involved in this modulatory process. More data are...
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