Controlled intermittent asystole cardiac therapy induced by pharmacologically potentiated vagus nerve stimulation in normal and hibernating myocardium

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1929-1936

  Ronson, Russell S ^b   Puskas, John D ^b   Thourani, Vinod H ^b   Velez, Daniel A ^b   Bufkin, Bradley L ^b   Glass, Jonathan ^b   Guyton, Robert A ^b   Vinten Johansen, Jakob ^a  

^a Carlyle Fraser Heart Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; VERAPAMIL;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DOG; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CREATINE KINASE; DOGS; DRUG SYNERGISM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PEROXIDASE; PROPRANOLOL; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; VAGUS NERVE; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0037974652     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00115-2     Document Type: Article

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