The influence of chronic hypokalemia on myocardial adrenergic receptor densities: Enhanced sensitivity to epinephrine-induced arrhythmias

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 734-739

  Miletich, David J ^a   Minshall, Richard D ^a   Albrecht, Ronald F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; POTASSIUM ION; PRAZOSIN; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CATECHOLAMINES; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPINEPHRINE; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0030939686     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199704000-00006     Document Type: Article

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