Effect of ethanol on guinea pig ventricular action potentials

Proceedings of the Physiological Society and the Societa Italiana Di Fisiologia, 11‐13 July 1985, Oxford Meeting: Communications

“…Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Cardiaque INSERM U-241, University Paris XI, F-91405 Orsay, France Contradictory effects of ethanol have been described on cardiac muscle (Mason, Spann, Miller, Lee, Arbogast & Segel, 1978;Carpentier & Carpentier, 1981). Here we investigated the effects of another alcohol, hexanol, on electrical and mechanical activities of frog sino-auricular trabeculae.…”