[Study and investigation of mechanism of atrial fibrillation--(II). Atrial fibrillation animal model and data analysis method]

Cuiying Zhang; Shangjun Zhang

[Study and investigation of mechanism of atrial fibrillation--(II). Atrial fibrillation animal model and data analysis method]

Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi. 2007 Oct;24(5):1040-4.

[Article in Chinese]

Authors

Cuiying Zhang¹, Shangjun Zhang

Affiliation

¹ Shandong Province Chest Hospital, Ji'nan 250013, China.

PMID: 18027692

Abstract

The first thorny problem in the study of atrial fibrillation (AF) is the establishment of reliable animal models. This paper presents how to create a canine sterile pericarditis model. A new data analysis method, Fast Fourier Transform is introduced. The data from canine sterile pericarditis model was analyzed using FFT. The results demonstrate that canine sterile pericarditis model is a reliable animal model for studying AF and that FFT is a rapid and effective method for analyzing AF data.

Publication types

English Abstract

MeSH terms

Animals
Atrial Fibrillation* / etiology
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Disease Models, Animal*
Dogs
Electrocardiography*
Fourier Analysis*
Male
Pericarditis / complications
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted