Cardiac β-Adrenergic Neuroeffector Systems in Acute
Myocardial Dysfunction Related to Brain Injury
by Michel White, Robert J. Wiechmann, Robert L. Roden, Mary Beth Hagan, Mary M.
Wollmering, J. David Port, Elizabeth Hammond, William T. Abraham, Eugene E.
Wolfel, JoAnn Lindenfeld, David Fullerton, and Michael R. Bristow
Circulation
Volume 92(8):2183-2189
October 15, 1995
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Bar graph showing total and subpopulation β-receptor density from LV and RV for DHD and for
NF organ donors.
Michel White et al. Circulation. 1995;92:2183-2189
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Bar graph showing maximum net tension responses (stimulated minus basal) of isolated RV
trabeculae to isoproterenol (ISO) and calcium.
Michel White et al. Circulation. 1995;92:2183-2189
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Graph showing net contractile response of RV trabeculae to increasing concentrations of
isoproterenol.
Michel White et al. Circulation. 1995;92:2183-2189
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A toluidine blue–stained 1-μm-thick plastic-embedded section of myocardium from one of the
study patients.
Michel White et al. Circulation. 1995;92:2183-2189
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