mildus
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glucagone has positive inotropic action
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| drmike11
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While true, this does not explain why glucagon would be used in this situation of other positive inotropes such as epinephrine. The big key here is cAMP. I wrote a nice post on my blog about this and it ties in the concept of physiologic antagonism.
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| mms
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glucagon stimulate adenylyl cyclase and increases intracellular cAMP in many different tissues. In the heart this result in increase of heart rate and force of contraction:
it stimulate the depressed heart without needing the beta receptor that are blocked by the beta-blocker overdose!!!
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| ryan_cabrera
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I like! 
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| gotenks
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nice question.
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