Heart rate responses to a muscarinic agonist in rats with experimentally induced acute and subacute chagasic myocarditis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 219-224

  Torres, Argenis ^a   Dávila, Diego F ^a,b   Gottberg, Carlos F ^a   Donis, Jose H ^a   Arata De Bellabarbaba, Gabriela ^a   Ramoni Perazzi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b Ctro de Invest Cardiovasculares   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Arecoline; Chagas' disease; Muscarinic agonist; Muscarinic receptor; Parasympathetic; T. cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARECOLINE; MUSCARINIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HEART RATE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; RAT; SINUS NODE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0343390259     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652000000400007     Document Type: Article

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