Rearrangement of the ventricular capillary network in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) following a late start of treatment with the angiotensin converting enzyme blocker temocapril

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 699-706

  Xie, Zhonglin ^a   Gao, Ming ^a   Horimoto, Masashi ^b   Togashi, Hiroko ^a   Saito, Hideya ^a   Koyama, Tomiyasu ^a,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACE blocker; Capillary density; Hypertrophy; SHRSP; Venular capillary portion

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; TEMOCAPRIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE CAPILLARY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0031795754     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.39.699     Document Type: Article

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