Effect Of Ligation Of Spleen Vessels On Left Ventricular Function And Coronary Blood Flow In Dogs Injected With Scorpion Venom

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-142

  Tarasiuk, Ariel ^a   Sasson, Lior ^a   Sofer, Shaul ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

cardiac output; circulatory failure; coronary flow; left ventricle; oxygen supply and consumption; scorpion venom

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOG; ENVENOMATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DP|DT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART OUTPUT; NONHUMAN; SCORPION; SPLENIC VEIN; VEIN LIGATION;

ANIMAL; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOGS; LIGATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SCORPION VENOMS; SPLEEN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033815640     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2000.11.2.127     Document Type: Article

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