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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2014 Oct;41(10):854–862. doi: 10.1111/1440-1681.12288

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Examples of secondary gastric arrhythmia mechanisms, as observed during multi-electrode (high-resolution) mapping, whereby one class of arrhythmia may induce secondary arrhythmic events. (i) Conduction delay or block may give rise to distal ‘escape’ events, due to the inherent automaticity of distal interstitial cells of Cajal;7,86 (ii) conduction inhomogeneity, in the presence of unidirectional block, may give rise to re-entrant slow wave activity;36,44,86 and (iii) ectopic events in the distal stomach may cause uncoupled areas of tissue, resulting in block of the normal antegrade wavefronts.7,44,86