Overt and latent cardiac effects of ozone inhalation in rats: Evidence for autonomic modulation and increased myocardial vulnerability

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 348-354

  Farraj, Aimen K ^a   Hazari, Mehdi S ^a   Winsett, Darrell W ^a   Kulukulualani, Anthony ^a   Carll, Alex P ^b   Haykal Coates, Najwa ^a   Lamb, Christina M ^b   Lappi, Edwin ^a   Terrell, Dock ^a   Cascio, Wayne E ^a   Costa, Daniel L ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Arrhythmia; Autonomic; Cardiac; Electrocardiogram; Heart rate variability; Inhalation; Latent; Overt; Ozone; Rats

Indexed keywords

ACONITINE; OZONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTONOMIC MODULATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HEART SINOATRIAL BLOCK; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PR INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; TELEMETRY;

ACONITINE; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART RATE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OZONE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; TELEMETRY;

RATTUS;

EID: 84857776230     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104244     Document Type: Article

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