Is prostacyclin an inodilator?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1403-1405

  Ricksten, Sven Erik ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CALCIUM; CATECHOLAMINE; CYCLIC AMP; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ILOPROST; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTACYCLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CHRONOTROPISM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIASTOLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; INOTROPISM; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SECOND MESSENGER; SWINE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EPOPROSTENOL; HUMANS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0141566237     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1834-8     Document Type: Editorial

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