Differential cardiac responses to unilateral sympathetic nerve stimulation in the isolated innervated rabbit heart

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 4-14

  Winter, James ^a   Tanko, Abdul Samed ^a   Brack, Kieran E ^a   Coote, John H ^b   Ng, G André ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Langendorff heart; Rabbit; Sympathetic innervation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; INOTROPISM; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SINUS NODE; SINUS RHYTHM; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RABBITS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 84855964684     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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