The Sympathomimetic Actions of l-Ephedrine and d-Pseudoephedrine: Direct Receptor Activation or Norepinephrine Release?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1239-1245

  Kobayashi, Shigeaki ^a   Endou, Masayuki ^b   Sakuraya, Fumika ^a   Matsuda, Naoyuki ^a   Zhang, Xiao Hong ^a   Azuma, Mitsue ^a   Echigo, Noriyuki ^b   Kemmotsu, Osamu ^a   Hattori, Yuichi ^a   Gando, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ATENOLOL; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; EPHEDRINE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; ISOPRENALINE; NORADRENALIN; OXIDOPAMINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PRAZOSIN; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; TYRAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOCOCCYGEUS MUSCLE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HEART RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN;

EID: 0142150303     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000092917.96558.3C     Document Type: Article

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