Differential chronotropic and dromotropic responses to focal stimulation of cardiac vagal ganglia in the rat

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 315-327

  Sampaio, Karla N ^b   Mauad, Hélder ^b   Spyer, K Michael ^a   Ford, Timothy W ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIMETAPHAN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; GANGLION; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HISTOLOGY; INHIBITION KINETICS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PR INTERVAL; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PULMONARY VEIN; RAT; SINUS NODE; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TOPOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0038527124     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8802525     Document Type: Article

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