Interference of hawthorn on serum digoxin measurements by immunoassays and pharmacodynamic interaction with digoxin

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1188-1192

  Dasgupta, Amitava ^a   Kidd, Laura ^a   Poindexter, Brian J ^a   Bick, Roger J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DIGOXIN; FLUO 4; PLANT EXTRACT; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRATAEGUS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RAT;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELLS, CULTURED; CRATAEGUS; DIGOXIN; DRUG INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; XANTHENES;

EID: 77955361003     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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