Cardiac hypertrophy in copper-deficient rats is owing to increased mitochondria

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 175-184

  Mao, Shumin ^a   Medeiros, Denis M ^a   Wildman, Robert E C ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy; Copper deficiency; Mitochondria; Myocytes; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DIETARY INTAKE; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEMATOCRIT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031785566     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02783334     Document Type: Article

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