Sympathetic cardiac hyperinnervation and atrial autonomic imbalance in diet-induced obesity promote cardiac arrhythmias

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 305, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  McCully, Belinda H ^a   Hasan, Wohaib ^a,b   Streiff, Cole T ^a   Houle, Jennifer C ^a   Woodward, William R ^a   Giraud, George D ^b   Brooks, Virginia L ^a   Habecker, Beth A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Autonomic imbalance; Neurite outgrowth; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENALIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIAL AUTONOMIC IMBALANCE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET INDUCED OBESITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPLANT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART WEIGHT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHILIC INTERACTION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIPID DIET; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC CARDIAC HYPERINNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC IMBALANCE; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; OBESITY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPINEPHRINE; HEART; HEART ATRIA; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OBESITY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84887579795     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00196.2013     Document Type: Article

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