The heart muscle's putative 'secondary structure'. Functional implications of a band-like anisotropy

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 53-64

  Lunkenheimer, P P ^a,d   Redmann, K ^a   Scheid, H ^a   Dietl, K H ^a   Cryer, C ^a   Richter, K D ^a   Merker, J ^b   Whimster, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Experimentelle Thorax   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SAMPLING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030756404     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/thc-1997-51-206     Document Type: Article

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