Dietary sodium intake and cardiac nerve cell hypertrophy in Wistar rats

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 363-365

  Gama, E F ^a   Ferraz de Carvatho, C A ^a   Vasconcelos, D C ^a   Lima, N K C ^b   Heimann, J C ^b   De Souza, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heart; Neuron size; Rat; Sodium intake

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEART MUSCLE; HYPERTENSION; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SODIUM INTAKE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMEGALY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HYPERTENSION; MYOCARDIUM; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM, DIETARY;

EID: 0030091187     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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