Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography Elucidates the Effect of Pacing Site on Left Ventricular Synchronization in the Normal and Infarcted Rat Myocardium

• Michal Mor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michal Mor, Wesam Mulla

  Affiliation Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Wesam Mulla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michal Mor, Wesam Mulla

  Affiliation Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Sigal Elyagon,

  Affiliation Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Hovav Gabay,

  Affiliations Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Emergency Medicine, Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Faculty of Health Sciences and PREPARED Center for Emergency Response Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Shani Dror,

  Affiliation Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Yoram Etzion ,

  * E-mail: tzion@bgu.ac.il

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Division of Internal Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Noah Liel-Cohen

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cardiology Department, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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