Rat study provides support for novel approach to cardiac pacing

Julian Paton Erin O’Callaghan (School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK) and others report in the Journal of Physiology that enhancing respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) improved cardiac function in rats with induced heart failure. They note that this finding gives a “tantalising demonstration of the physiological [...]