Effects of acute vagal nerve stimulation on the early passive electrical changes induced by myocardial ischaemia in dogs: Heart rate-mediated attenuation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 931-944

  Del Rio, Carlos L ^a,b   Dawson, Tom A ^c   Clymer, Bradley D ^b   Paterson, David J ^c   Billman, George E ^a,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DOG; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; IMPEDANCE; NONHUMAN; T WAVE; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 47349116547     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2007.041558     Document Type: Article

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