The name was coined by Alexander Vostokov and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballad, first published in 1813. The name is also used in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, and Serbia, with a number of occurrences in non-Slavic countries.
Define inotropic: increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractions â inotropic in a sentence increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractionsâ¦ See the full definition
After the first isolation of insulin from the pancreas in the early 1920s, Visscher and Muller were probably the first to attribute a positive inotropic effect to insulin in an isolated heart preparation. However, data on the effects of insulin on cardiac function and metabolism remain conflicting.