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New arguments for positive inotropic vagal influence on cardiac contractility in cats

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Vagal influences on the heart were studied in narcotized cats, in which the cardiotripic effects of sympathetic nerves, heart rate, and pre- and afterload were excluded. Under these conditions vagus nerve exerted only a positive inotropic effect probably mediated by an unknown humoral factor.

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  1. Department of Normal Physiology, Kuban Medical Academy, Krasnodar

    Yu. R. Sheikh-Zade

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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 129, No. 4, pp. 396–398, April, 2000

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Sheikh-Zade, Y.R. New arguments for positive inotropic vagal influence on cardiac contractility in cats. Bull Exp Biol Med 129, 335–336 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02439260

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