Physiological importance of the coronary arterial blood supply to the rattlesnake heart

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3588-3593

  Hagensen, Mette K ^a,c   Abe, Augusto S ^b   Falk, Erling ^c   Wang, Tobias ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Coronary artery occlusion; Heart rate; Microfil; Reptile

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY OCCLUSION; CORONARY VESSELS; CROTALUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; SOUTH AMERICA;

CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS TERRIFICUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 55949118070     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.024489     Document Type: Article

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