Loss of anti-arrhythmic effect of vagal nerve stimulation on ischemia-induced ventricular tachyarrhythmia in aged rats

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-33

  Wu, Wei ^a,b   Lu, Zhibing ^a  

^a RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Connexin43; Myocardial ischemia; Vagal nerve; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43; MESSENGER RNA;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 78650629860     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.223.27     Document Type: Article

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