cardiovascular system
• develop severe bradycardia when injected daily with tamoxifen which leads eventually to death
• heart rate reduced by 32% after 2 days of treatment and by 47% after 6 days
• isolated cells from the sino-atrial node of mice treated with tamoxifen beat spontaneously but more slowly than control cells and become progressively slower as treatment is continued to 5 days
• mice injected with isoproterenol experience heart beat acceleration similar to that occurring in control mice
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• when injected daily with tamoxifen, atrioventricular block becomes a 2nd degree block
• conduction ratio progresses from 2:1 to 4:1 or more
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• when mice are injected daily with tamoxifen, a prolonged PQ interval is observed
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• f-channel current densities from atrioventricular cells isolated from mice after 2 and 5 days of treatment with tamoxifen are lower than for control cells
• there is a time dependent decrease in f-channel conductance
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mortality/aging
• no mice survive beyond 8.5 days of treatment with tamoxifen
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