Dietary fish oil confers direct antiarrhythmic properties on the myocardium of rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-42

  Pepe, Salvatore ^a,c   McLennan, Peter L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

arrhythmia; dietary fats (n 3) fatty acids; myocardial ischemia; rats

Indexed keywords

FISH OIL; PHOSPHOLIPID; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FAT INTAKE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; LOW FAT DIET; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0030045987     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/126.1.34     Document Type: Article

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