Muscarinic and β-adrenergic regulation of heart rate, force of contraction and calcium current is preserved in mice lacking endothelial nitric oxide synthase

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-334

  Vandecasteele, Grégoire ^a   Eschenhagen, Thomas ^b   Scholz, Hasso ^b   Stein, Birgitt ^b   Verde, Ignacio ^a   Fischmeister, Rodolphe ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MUSCARINIC AGENT; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CHRONOTROPISM; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART RATE; INOTROPISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033017176     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6553     Document Type: Article

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