Sera from chronic chagasic patients with complex cardiac arrhythmias depress electrogenesis and conduction in isolated rabbit hearts

Circulation

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2031-2037

  Farias De Oliveira, Selma ^a   Pedrosa, Roberto Coury ^b   Nascimento, José Hamilton Matheus ^a   Campos De Carvalho, Antonio Carlos ^a   Masuda, Masako Oya ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Heart block; Heart rate; Immune system; Receptors electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SERUM; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0342601888     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.96.6.2031     Document Type: Article

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