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Biologically Energized Cardiac Pacemaker: in vivo Experience with Dogs

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CARDIAC pacemakers have been in use for implanting into man for more than a decade and have relied chiefly on mercury or nickel cadmium cells as sources of power1.

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ENGER, C., SIMEONE, F. Biologically Energized Cardiac Pacemaker: in vivo Experience with Dogs. Nature 218, 180–181 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218180a0

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