Increased cardiomyocyte apoptosis during the transition to heart failure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 5 41-5, 1997, Pages

  Li, Zhihe ^a   Bing, Oscar H L ^b   Long, Xilin ^a   Robinson, Kathleen G ^b   Lakatta, Edward G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; DNA fragmentation; terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase mediated 2' deoxyuridine 5' triphosphate nick end labeling

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL; COLLAGEN; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0031010638     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.272.5.h2313     Document Type: Article

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