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  2. Chronotropic - Wikipedia

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    Chronotropic effects (from chrono-, meaning time, and tropos, "a turn") are those that change the heart rate. Chronotropic drugs may change the heart rate and rhythm by affecting the electrical conduction system of the heart and the nerves that influence it, such as by changing the rhythm produced by the sinoatrial node. Positive chronotropes ...

  3. Inotrope - Wikipedia

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    Both positive and negative inotropes are used in the management of various cardiovascular conditions. The choice of agent depends largely on specific pharmacological effects of individual agents with respect to the condition. One of the most important factors affecting inotropic state is the level of calcium in the cytoplasm of the muscle cell ...

  4. Lusitropy - Wikipedia

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    Lusitropy or lucitropy is the rate of myocardial relaxation. The increase in cytosolic calcium of cardiomyocytes via increased uptake leads to increased myocardial contractility (positive inotropic effect), but the myocardial relaxation, or lusitropy, decreases.

  5. Adrenergic receptor - Wikipedia

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    increase cardiac output by increasing heart rate (positive chronotropic effect), conduction velocity (positive dromotropic effect), stroke volume (by enhancing contractility – positive inotropic effect), and rate of relaxation of the myocardium, by increasing calcium ion sequestration rate (positive lusitropic effect), which aids in ...

  6. Ionotropic effect - Wikipedia

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    The effect can be either positive or negative, specifically a depolarization or a hyperpolarization respectively. This term is commonly confused with an inotropic effect, which refers to a change in the force of contraction (e.g. in heart muscle) produced by transmitter substances or hormones.

  7. Myocardial contractility - Wikipedia

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    Drugs that positively render the effects of catecholamines such as norepinephrine and epinephrine that enhance contractility are considered to have a positive inotropic effect. The ancient herbal remedy digitalis appears to have both inotropic and chronotropic properties that have been recorded encyclopedically for centuries and it remains ...

  8. Beta-adrenergic agonist - Wikipedia

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    Epinephrine (adrenaline). Activation of β 1 receptors induces positive inotropic, chronotropic output of the cardiac muscle, leading to increased heart rate and blood pressure, secretion of ghrelin from the stomach, and renin release from the kidneys.

  9. Cardiovascular physiology - Wikipedia

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    Inotropic, chronotropic, and dromotropic states; Cardiac input (= heart rate * suction volume Can be calculated by inverting terms in Fick principle) Suction volume (= end-systolic volume + end-diastolic volume) Injection fraction (=suction volume / end-systolic volume) Cardiac input is mathematically ` to diastole [clarification needed]