Cardiac glycoside

Introduction: Cardiac glycoside

Description of Cardiac glycoside

Cardiac glycoside: group of substances obtained from species of Digitalis, Strophanthus, and other plants that contain specific steroid glycosides or their semisynthetic derivatives and used in congestive heart failure; they increase the force of cardiac contraction without significantly affecting other parameters, but are very toxic at larger doses; their mechanism of action usually involves inhibition of the Na(+)-K(+)-exchanging ATPase and they are often used in cell biological studies for that purpose.
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Cardiac glycoside: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Cardiac glycoside:

• Cardiac
• Cardiac symptoms (2927 causes)
• Cardiac disease
• Cardiac disorder
• Glycoside
• Group
• Digitalis
• Strophanthus
• Specific

Terms associated with Cardiac glycoside:

More specific terms for Cardiac glycoside:

• digoxin
• ouabain

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Broader terms for Cardiac glycoside

• cardiotonic agent
• diuretic
• glycoside

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The term Cardiac glycoside can be used for:

• digitoxin

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