Cardiac morphology and function in senescent rats: Gender-related differences

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1872-1877

  Forman, Daniel E ^a,b,c,e   Cittadini, Antonio ^d   Azhar, Gohar ^a,d   Douglas, Pamela S ^d   Wei, Jeanne Y ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENDER; HEART FUNCTION; HEART SIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031543305     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00411-7     Document Type: Article

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