Apoptosis in the failing human heart

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1131-1141

  Olivetti, Giorgio ^a   Abbi, Rakesh ^a   Quaini, Federico ^b   Kajstura, Jan ^a   Cheng, Wei ^a   Nitahara, James A ^a   Quaini, Eugenio ^d   Di Loreto, Carla ^c   Beltrami, Carlo A ^c   Krajewski, Stanislaw ^e   Reed, John C ^e   Anversa, Piero ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d De Gasperis Div of Cardiac Surgery   (Italy)

^e BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BIOTIN; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DEOXYURACIL NUCLEOTIDES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030766192     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199704173361603     Document Type: Article

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