Aging, cardiac hypertrophy and ischemic cardiomyopathy do not affect the proportion of mononucleated and multinucleated myocytes in the human heart

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1463-1477

  Olivetti, Giorgio ^a   Cigola, Elena ^a   Maestri, Roberta ^b   Corradi, Domenico ^b   Lagrasta, Costanza ^b   Gambert, Steven R ^a   Anversa, Piero ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Hypertrophy; Mononucleated and multinucleated myocytes; Myocyte number; Myocyte size

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030198981     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.1996.0137     Document Type: Article

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