Chronotropy

This article was checked by pedagogue

This article ws checked by pedagogue, but later was changed. Checked version of the article can be found here. See also comparation of actual and checked version.

Chronotropy is the influence of heart frequency. Positive chronotropy suggest faster heart frequency (for example an increased activity if the sympathetic nervous system has a positive chronotropic effect on the heart), on the contrary a negative chronotropy indicates a slower heart frequency (increased activity of the parasympathetic nervous system causes a negative chronotropy).

Links

Related articles

• Bathmotropy
• Dromotropy
• Ionotropy
• Determination of cardiac output

Source

• ŠVÍGLEROVÁ, Jitka. Chronotropie [online]. The last revision 2009-02-18, [cit. 2010-11-11]. <https://web.archive.org/web/20160416225321/http://wiki.lfp-studium.cz/index.php/Chronotropie>.