Vagal Withdrawal and Susceptibility to Cardiac Arrhythmias in Rats with High Trait Aggressiveness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Carnevali, Luca ^a   Trombini, Mimosa ^a   Porta, Alberto ^b   Montano, Nicola ^c,d   de Boer, Sietse F ^e   Sgoifo, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; RAT; TACHYCARDIA; VAGUS NERVE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATENOLOL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; HEART RATE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; N-METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; RATS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELEMETRY;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84879808981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068316     Document Type: Article

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