Regulation of atrial contraction in the seawater-adapted eel, Anguilla japonica

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-172

  Yasuda, Masanobu ^a   Uesaka, Toshihiro ^a   Furukawa, Yasuo ^a   Ando, Masaaki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine (ACh); Adrenaline (AD); Adrenergic innervation; Atrium; Eel (Anguilla japonica); Electrical field stimulation; Muscarinic ACh receptor; adrenoceptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000648922     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02048-9     Document Type: Article

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