Authors
Bernard Lown, Richard Verrier, Ramon Corbalan
Publication date
1973/11/23
Journal
Science
Volume
182
Issue
4114
Pages
834-836
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
A psychologically stressful environment reduced the threshold of the dog's ventricle for repetitive response. Elicitation of such a response indicates the presence of electrical instability and a predisposition to ventricular fibrillation, the mechanism of sudden death.
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B Lown, R Verrier, R Corbalan - Science, 1973