Population
Isolated, blood-perfused canine heart preparations and intact support dogs
Design
Preclinical
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No immediate clinical implications from canine data; leaves open translation of OPC-8490 mechanisms to human HF trials.
OPC-8490 acts as a cardiotonic agent with positive inotropic and negative chronotropic effects mediated through multiple cellular mechanisms in the canine heart.
Furukawa et al. (1989) studied this question.
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