The effects of tertiapin-Q on responses of the sinoatrial pacemaker of the guinea-pig heart to vagal nerve stimulation and muscarinic agonists

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-63

  Bolter, Chris P ^a,b   English, Duane J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; BETHANECOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCARINIC AGENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TERTIAPIN Q; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART PERFUSION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; P WAVE; PACEMAKER; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; SINUS NODE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UREA CYCLE; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VARICOSIS;

EID: 37349113721     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2007.038901     Document Type: Article

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