Altered autonomic control in conscious transgenic rabbits with overexpressed cardiac Gsα

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Nishizawa, Takao ^a   Shen, You Tang ^a   Rossi, Franco ^a   Hong, Chull ^a   Robbins, Jeffrey ^b   Ishikawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Sadoshima, Junichi ^a   Vatner, Dorothy E ^a   Vatner, Stephen F ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Heart rate; Left ventricular contractility; Sympathetic tone; Vagal nerves

Indexed keywords

CEVADINE; CIGARETTE SMOKE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; BRADYCARDIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART RATE; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WILD TYPE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ATROPINE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GS; HEART RATE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; MYOCARDIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROPRANOLOL; RABBITS; REFLEX; SMOKE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOBACCO; VAGUS NERVE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VERATRINE;

EID: 33846956140     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00791.2006     Document Type: Article

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