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RGS Proteins in Heart: Brakes on the Vagus

It has been nearly a century since Otto Loewi discovered that acetylcholine (ACh) release from the vagus produces bradycardia and reduced cardiac contractility. It is now known that parasympathetic control of the heart is mediated by ACh stimulation of G(i/o)-coupled muscarinic M2 receptors, which d...

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Autores principales: Stewart, Adele, Huang, Jie, Fisher, Rory A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3368389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22685433
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2012.00095