Transplantation-induced atrophy of normal and hypertrophic rat hearts: Effect on cardiac myocytes and capillaries

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1045-1054

  Rakusan, Karel ^a,c   Heron, Marcia I ^a   Kolar, Frantisek ^b   Korecky, Borivoj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cardiac hypertrophy; Coronary microcirculation; Myocyte nuclei; Quantitative morphology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031105637     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.1996.0350     Document Type: Article

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