We love a variety of plants in the garden, but there are some perennials to think twice about. Some are tricky to grow, some ...

Aconitum contains aconitine, a powerful toxin that can cause nausea, vomiting, and death through respiratory failure if ingested. Oleander contains cardiac glycosides, which can lead to severe heart ...

Wolf's bane, or Aconitum, is a highly toxic perennial plant that looks extraordinarily beautiful but also poses a deadly ...

These findings support the circus movement hypothesis as the mechanism of pure atrial flutter. In contrast, with aconitine tachysystole, activation proceeded over both atria at once and was so brief ...

IN the last decade many investigators have demonstrated that the administration of vasopressor drugs may terminate paroxysmal supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia. 1–11 However, it is ...

Concentration of hydrogen ions is found to increase along the Heart and Pericardium meridians for rabbits suffering from arrhythmia induced by aconitine. The mast cells were found to concentrate more ...

From the Center for Cardiovascular Research and Departments of Medicine (J.M.H., D.P.K.), Molecular Biology and Pharmacology (D.P.K.), and Pediatrics (D.P.K ...

My research has focused on the modification of sodium channel kinetics by Site 2 neurotoxins such as aconitine, lappaconitine, and batrachotoxin, as well as the block of sodium channels by a variety ...