L-thyroxine increases susceptibility of adult rats to low K+-induced ventricular fibrillation and sinus rhythm restoration in old rats

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 629-636

  Tribulova, Narcis ^a   Knezl, Vladimir ^b   Okruhlicova, Ludmila ^a   Drimal, Jan ^b   Lamosova, Dalma ^a   Slezak, Jan ^a   Styk, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HYPOKALEMIA; ISOLATED HEART; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 4544342940     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2004.027607     Document Type: Article

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