Effects of dothiepin on delayed conduction produced by ventricular arrhythmia in the canine heart after myocardial infarction

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 335-350

  Nishimoto, Masahiko ^a,b   Hashimoto, Hisakuni ^a   Ikeda, Yasuhiko ^a   Umemura, Kazuo ^a   Nakashima, Mituyoshi ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Maruyama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Canine myocardial infarction dothiepin; Ventricular activation time

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; DOSULEPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; QT INTERVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ARRHYTHMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOTHIEPIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART RATE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0033081662     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(98)00099-2     Document Type: Article

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