The vulnerable window in a heterogeneous virtual LRl cardiac tissue, with a linear gradient in G_K, is wider when following propagation down the gradient, towards tissue with longer action potential duration, than when following propagation up the gradient. Spiral wave solutions in a uniform linear gradient in G_K drift, with a velocity component along the gradient of the order of mm/s, towards tissue with a longer APD.

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