Disparity between serotonin- and acetylcholine-provoked coronary artery spasm

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 146-152

  Kanazawa, Kenji ^a   Suematsu, Masakum ^a   Ishida, Tatsuro ^a   Hirata, Ken Ichi ^a   Kawasihma, Seixosuke ^a   Aktta, Hozuka ^a   Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; coronary vasospasm; ergonovine; serotonin; vasospastic angina

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ERGOMETRINE MALEATE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; SEROTONIN CREATININE SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PROVOCATION TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VASOSPASM;

EID: 0031038736     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960200212     Document Type: Article

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