Effects of cardiac sympathetic innervation on coronary blood flow

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 1208-1215

  Di Carli, Marcelo F ^a,b,d   Tobes, Michael C ^c   Mangner, Thomas ^b   Levine, Arlene B ^c   Muzik, Otto ^b   Chakroborty, Pulak ^b   Levine, T Barry ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; HEART DENERVATION; HEART INNERVATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REINNERVATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADULT; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EPHEDRINE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; NEURONS, EFFERENT; NOREPINEPHRINE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; REFERENCE VALUES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030891682     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199704243361703     Document Type: Article

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