title: A short, biased history of triggered activity.
abstract: This manuscript is one man's view of the early days of triggered activity. It is a biased view, representing my personal recollections tempered by revisiting the literature. I have prepared the manuscript in this fashion to satisfy the charge of the editors to recall a part of history during which I lived and to which, in some small way, I contributed. It is possible and indeed likely that another individual writing on this topic would remember differently, which of course contributes to the intrigue of history.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Center for Molecular Therapeutics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. mrr1@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D022062:Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac / Q000379:methods*; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000503:physiopathology*