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Multichannel mapping of electrical field on heart ventricle epicardium and the body surface in frogs Rana esculenta and Rana temporaria was performed at periods of the ventricular myocardium depolarization and repolarization. The zone of the epicardium early depolarization is located on epicardium of the ventricle base posterior wall, while the late depolarization zone—on its apex and on the base anterior wall. The total vector of sequence of the ventricle epicardium depolarization is directed from the base to the apex. The zone of the early repolarization is located in the apical area, while that of the late one—in the area of the base. On the frog body surface the cardioelectric field with the cranial zone of negative and the caudal zone of positive potentials is formed before the appearance of the QRS complex on ECG. At the period of the heart ventricle repolarization the zone of the cardioelectric field negative potentials is located in the cranial, while that of the positive ones—in the body surface caudal parts. The cardioelectric field on the frog body surface at the periods of depolarization and repolarization of the ventricle myocardium reflects adequately the projection of sequence of involvement with excitation and of distribution of potentials on epicardium.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Vaikshnoraite, A.S. Belogolova, V.A. Vityazev, Ya.E. Azarov, D.N. Shmakov, 2008, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 173–179.
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Vaikshnoraite, M.A., Belogolova, A.S., Vityazev, V.A. et al. Cardiac electric field at the period of depolarization and repolarization of the frog heart ventricle. J Evol Biochem Phys 44, 204–211 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093008020084
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