Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, Vol. 112, Issue 3, 374-377, 1954
Copyright © 1954 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
EFFECT OF ELIMINATION OF HEPATIC CIRCULATION ON CYCLOPROPANEEPINEPHRINE VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA AND ARTERIAL PLASMA POTASSIUM IN DOGS
G. S. O'Brien 1,
C. H. Eid 1,
Quillian R. Murphy Jr. 1, and
W. J. Meek 1
1 Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison
In dogs anesthetized with cyclopropane the reduction of the plasma potassium response to epinephrine by exclusion of hepatic blood flow resulted in protection from ventricular tachycardia in 17 out of 18 dogs.
Submitted on August 6, 1954