Decreased responsiveness of vascular postjunctional α1-, α2-adrenoceptors and neuropeptide Y1 receptors in rats with heart failure

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 285-291

  Feng, Qingping ^a,d   Sun, X ^b   Lu, X ^a   Edvinsson, L ^c   Hedner, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiac output; Congestive heart failure; Neuropeptide Y receptor; Postjunctional adrenoceptor; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; AZEPEXOLE; CLONIDINE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDE Y1 RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; AUTONOMIC FIBERS, PREGANGLIONIC; AZEPINES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CATECHOLAMINES; CLONIDINE; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHENYLEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

EID: 0032864659     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201x.1999.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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