Atrial tachyarrhythmias induced by acetylcholine in tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) isolated atria

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 330-338

  Lin, Tsai Chu ^a   Hou, Zone Yuan ^b   Liu, Hwan Wun ^a   Wu, Hui Sun ^a   Lin, Cheng I ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Action potential; Fish atrial flutter; Human atria; Re entrant atrial tachycardia; Sodium channel blockers; Twitch and contracture

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; QUINIDINE; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DRUG EFFECT; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TEMPERATURE; TILAPIA;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; TACHYCARDIA; TILAPIA;

EID: 0034104707     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2000.03257.x     Document Type: Article

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