Activated cranial cervical cord neurons affect left ventricular infarct size and the potential for sudden cardiac death

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-42

  Southerland, E Marie ^a   Gibbons, David D ^a   Smith, S Brooks ^a   Sipe, Adam ^a   Williams, Carole Ann ^a   Beaumont, Eric ^b,c   Armour, J Andrew ^a   Foreman, Robert D ^d   Ardell, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenergic blockade; Muscarinic blockade; Myocardial infarction; Neuromodulation; Sudden cardiac death; Vagotomy

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; ATROPINE; PRAZOSIN; TETRAZOLIUM; YOHIMBINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADRENERGIC NEURONS; ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; CORONARY OCCLUSION; CRANIAL NERVES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DENERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RABBITS; RISK; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84861454033     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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