**Meet the editor**

Dr. Tong Liu graduated from Tianjin Medical University in 2000, and got his PhD in 2006. He received training in the research of electrophysiology at the Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, from 2009 to 2010. He has particular interests in cardiac electrophysiology, and has focused on the research of atrial fibrillation over the past decade. Dr. Liu is the Youth Commit-

tee Member of Chinese Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (CSPE). He is on the editorial boards of World Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, Chinese Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine and Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Medicine, as well as a peer reviewer for more than 15 scientific journals. He has published over 30 articles in peer reviewed medical journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Atrial Fibrillation and the**

Bo-yuan Fan

F. Sharifov

**Section 2 Mechanisms 57**

Musca

**Section 1 Pharmacological Management 1**

**Atrial Fibrillation 29**

**Etiological Origins 59**

Chernova and Oksana Gavrilyuk

**Supraventricular Arrhythmia 79**

**Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System 3**

Chapter 2 **Antioxidant Therapies in the Prevention and Treatment of**

Tong Liu, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos and Guangping Li

Chapter 3 **Effect of CD3+ T-Lymphocyte and n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty**

Chapter 4 **New Candidate Genes in Atrial Fibrillation Polymorphisms of the Alpha 2-Beta-Adrenoceptor and the Endothelial NO**

**Synthase Genes in Atrial Fibrillation of Different**

Chapter 5 **Voltage-Independent Calcium Channels, Molecular Sources of**

Svetlana Nikulina, Vladimir Shulman, Ksenya Dudkina, Anna

Paul E. Wolkowicz, Patrick K. Umeda, Ferdinand Urthaler and Oleg

Stefano Perlini, Fabio Belluzzi, Francesco Salinaro and Francesco

**Acids on the Diagnosis or Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation 45** Qiang-Sun Zheng, Hong-Tao Wang, Zhong Zhang, Jun Li, Li Liu and
