Omer Berenfeld

Publications

• Heterogeneous Atrial Wall Thickness and Stretch Promote Scroll Waves Anchoring During Atrial Fibrillation
  Cardiovascular Research. Feb, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22227155
• Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms: is This the Beast to Tame in Atrial Fibrillation?
  Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. Aug, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21846887
• Relative Contribution of Changes in Sodium Current Versus Intercellular Coupling on Reentry Initiation in 2-dimensional Preparations of Plakophilin-2-deficient Cardiac Cells
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Nov, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21723844
• Time- and Frequency-domain Analyses of Atrial Fibrillation Activation Rate: the Optical Mapping Reference
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Nov, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21699849
• Mechanisms of Fractionated Electrograms Formation in the Posterior Left Atrium During Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Humans
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Mar, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21349400
• Targeting Atrioventricular Differences in Ion Channel Properties for Terminating Acute Atrial Fibrillation in Pigs
  Cardiovascular Research. Mar, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21076156
• Ionic and Substrate Mechanism of Atrial Fibrillation: Rotors and the Exitación Frequency Approach
  Archivos De Cardiologia De Mexico. oct-dec, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 21169095
• A Major Role for HERG in Determining Frequency of Reentry in Neonatal Rat Ventricular Myocyte Monolayer
  Circulation Research. Dec, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20947828
• Toward Discerning the Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation from Surface Electrocardiogram and Spectral Analysis
  Journal of Electrocardiology. Nov-Dec, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20673913
• Specific Residues of the Cytoplasmic Domains of Cardiac Inward Rectifier Potassium Channels Are Effective Antifibrillatory Targets
  FASEB Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Nov, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20585026
• Mechanisms Underlying the Antifibrillatory Action of Hyperkalemia in Guinea Pig Hearts
  Biophysical Journal. May, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20483316
• Spatiotemporal and Spectral Characteristics of Atrial Fibrillation Waves Across Atrial Walls and Remodeling
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Apr, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20193793
• Letter by Berenfeld and Jalife Regarding Article "dominant Frequency of Atrial Fibrillation Correlates Poorly with Atrial Fibrillation Cycle Length"
  Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. Feb, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20160172
• Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms: Properties of Time-domain Versus Frequency-domain Methods
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Oct, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19968928
• Left Versus Right Atrial Difference in Dominant Frequency, K(+) Channel Transcripts, and Fibrosis in Patients Developing Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Oct, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19656731
• Mechanisms of Stretch-induced Atrial Fibrillation in the Presence and the Absence of Adrenocholinergic Stimulation: Interplay Between Rotors and Focal Discharges
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Jul, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19560089
• Turning On/off the Dome in Phase 2 Reentry: the Switching Wave Hypothesis
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Jun, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19467511
• Reentry in Cardioversion: 'We Can See It from Here...'
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Jan, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19121807
• Real-time Dominant Frequency Mapping and Ablation of Dominant Frequency Sites in Atrial Fibrillation with Left-to-right Frequency Gradients Predicts Long-term Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Jan, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19121797
• Atrial Septopulmonary Bundle of the Posterior Left Atrium Provides a Substrate for Atrial Fibrillation Initiation in a Model of Vagally Mediated Pulmonary Vein Tachycardia of the Structurally Normal Heart
  Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. Aug, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 19609369
• Reentry in an Accessory Atrioventricular Pathway As a Trigger for Atrial Fibrillation Initiation in Manifest Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome: a Matter of Reflection?
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Sep, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18774096
• Electrotonic Myofibroblast-to-myocyte Coupling Increases Propensity to Reentrant Arrhythmias in Two-dimensional Cardiac Monolayers
  Biophysical Journal. Nov, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18658226
• Rotor Meandering Contributes to Irregularity in Electrograms During Atrial Fibrillation
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Jun, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18534369
• Universal Scaling Law of Electrical Turbulence in the Mammalian Heart
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Dec, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 18093948
• Action Potential Alternans in LQT3 Syndrome: a Simulation Study
  Conference Proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference. 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 18002037
• Arrhythmogenic Mechanisms in a Mouse Model of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
  Circulation Research. Nov, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17872467
• Quantifying Activation Frequency in Atrial Fibrillation to Establish Underlying Mechanisms and Ablation Guidance
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Sep, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17765627
• Spatial Distribution of Fibrosis Governs Fibrillation Wave Dynamics in the Posterior Left Atrium During Heart Failure
  Circulation Research. Oct, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17704207
• Endoscopic Fluorescence Mapping of the Left Atrium: a Novel Experimental Approach for High Resolution Endocardial Mapping in the Intact Heart
  Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. Jul, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17599678
• Up-regulation of the Inward Rectifier K+ Current (I K1) in the Mouse Heart Accelerates and Stabilizes Rotors
  The Journal of Physiology. Jan, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17095564
• Activation of Inward Rectifier Potassium Channels Accelerates Atrial Fibrillation in Humans: Evidence for a Reentrant Mechanism
  Circulation. Dec, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 17101853
• Interdependence of Virtual Electrode Polarization and Conduction Velocity During Premature Stimulation
  Journal of Electrocardiology. Oct, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 17015062
• Mechanisms of Wave Fractionation at Boundaries of High-frequency Excitation in the Posterior Left Atrium of the Isolated Sheep Heart During Atrial Fibrillation
  Circulation. Feb, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16461834
• Altered Right Atrial Excitation and Propagation in Connexin40 Knockout Mice
  Circulation. Oct, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16203917
• Spectral Analysis Identifies Sites of High-frequency Activity Maintaining Atrial Fibrillation in Humans
  Circulation. Aug, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16061740
• Ionic Determinants of Functional Reentry in a 2-D Model of Human Atrial Cells During Simulated Chronic Atrial Fibrillation
  Biophysical Journal. Jun, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15792974
• A Novel Form of Short QT Syndrome (SQT3) is Caused by a Mutation in the KCNJ2 Gene
  Circulation Research. Apr, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15761194
• Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation Termination by Pure Sodium Channel Blockade in an Ionically-realistic Mathematical Model
  Circulation Research. Mar, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15731458
• Effect of Remodelling, Stretch and Ischaemia on Ventricular Fibrillation Frequency and Dynamics in a Heart Failure Model
  Cardiovascular Research. Jan, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15621043
• From Mouse to Whale: a Universal Scaling Relation for the PR Interval of the Electrocardiogram of Mammals
  Circulation. Nov, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15505092
• The Muscular Network of the Sheep Right Atrium and Frequency-dependent Breakdown of Wave Propagation
  The Anatomical Record. Part A, Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology. Oct, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15372488
• Molecular Mechanisms and Global Dynamics of Fibrillation: an Integrative Approach to the Underlying Basis of Vortex-like Reentry
  Journal of Theoretical Biology. Oct, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15363670
• Toward an Understanding of the Molecular Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation
  Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology : an International Journal of Arrhythmias and Pacing. Oct, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 14574022
• Cholinergic Atrial Fibrillation: I(K,ACh) Gradients Determine Unequal Left/right Atrial Frequencies and Rotor Dynamics
  Cardiovascular Research. Oct, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 14553826
• Synthesis of Voltage-sensitive Fluorescence Signals from Three-dimensional Myocardial Activation Patterns
  Biophysical Journal. Oct, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 14507730
• Intra-atrial Pressure Increases Rate and Organization of Waves Emanating from the Superior Pulmonary Veins During Atrial Fibrillation
  Circulation. Aug, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12900337
• Blockade of the Inward Rectifying Potassium Current Terminates Ventricular Fibrillation in the Guinea Pig Heart
  Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. Jun, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12875424
• Wavebreak Formation During Ventricular Fibrillation in the Isolated, Regionally Ischemic Pig Heart
  Circulation Research. Mar, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12600877
• Frequency-dependent Breakdown of Wave Propagation into Fibrillatory Conduction Across the Pectinate Muscle Network in the Isolated Sheep Right Atrium
  Circulation Research. Jun, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 12065320
• Mother Rotors and Fibrillatory Conduction: a Mechanism of Atrial Fibrillation
  Cardiovascular Research. May, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 12062327
• Minimal Principle for Rotor Filaments
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Jun, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 12048234