Collagen content and distribution in the normal and transplanted human heart: A postmortem quantitative light microscopic analysis

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 61-68

  Van Suylen, R J ^a,c   Van Bekkum, E E C ^a   Boersma, H ^a   De Kok, L B ^b   Balk, A H M M ^a   Bos, E ^a   Bosman, F T ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029932312     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1054-8807(95)00087-9     Document Type: Article

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