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Action of Calcium Antagonists on the Contraction of Isolated Human Coronary Arteries and Myocardium

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The concept of calcium antagonism has been pioneered in Europe in the nineteen sixties in two different and independent experimental approaches, one by Godfraind et al. on vascular smooth muscles (1, 2, 3) the other by Fleckenstein et al. (4) on cardiac muscle.

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  1. Laboratoire de Pharmacodynamie Générale et de Pharmacologie, Université Catholique de Louvain, UCL 7350, avenue Emmanuel Mounier 73, 1200, Bruxelles, Belgique

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  1. Youville Research Institute, St. Boniface General Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Naranjan S. Dhalla , Ian R. Innes  & Robert E. Beamish ,  & 

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Godfraind, T. (1987). Action of Calcium Antagonists on the Contraction of Isolated Human Coronary Arteries and Myocardium. In: Dhalla, N.S., Innes, I.R., Beamish, R.E. (eds) Myocardial Ischemia. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 67. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2055-5_27

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