Low vagally-mediated heart rate variability and increased susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias in rats bred for high anxiety

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 16-25

  Carnevali, Luca ^a   Trombini, Mimosa ^a   Graiani, Gallia ^a   Madeddu, Denise ^a   Quaini, Federico ^a   Landgraf, Rainer ^b   Neumann, Inga D ^c   Nalivaiko, Eugene ^d   Sgoifo, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arrhythmias; Autonomic nervous system; Cardiac structure; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; ISOPRENALINE; METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ACUTE STRESS; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETIC LINE; HEART; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEART WEIGHT; HIGH ANXIETY BEHAVIOR; LOW ANXIETY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT MODEL; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HEART RATE; INBRED RAT STRAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WISTAR RAT;

ADRENERGIC BETA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATENOLOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; N-METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84894348073     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.01.033     Document Type: Article

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