Nitric oxide mediates the vagal protective effect on ventricular fibrillation via effects on action potential duration restitution in the rabbit heart

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 583, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 695-704

  Brack, Kieran E ^a   Patel, Vanlata H ^b   Coote, John H ^b   Ng, G André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFRACTORY PERIOD; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; SINUS RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARGININE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROARGININE; PERFUSION; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 34548324760     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.138461     Document Type: Article

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