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1 Section on Cardiovascular Research, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
In contrast to its reported accelerating action in isolated heart preparations, serotonin has only a negative chronotropic effect on direct perfusion of the sinus node in vivo. There is no significant cholinergic component in this local slowing effect. Certain observations suggest the bradycardia may be a direct action on sinus node fibers, but an antiadrenergic mechanism has not been excluded.
Accepted on July 22, 1964