Minoxidil accelerates heart failure development in rats with ascending aortic constriction

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 613-620

  Turcani, Marian ^a   Jacob, Ruthard ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy; Heart failure; Minoxidil; Pressure overload; Volume overload

Indexed keywords

MINOXIDIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032464064     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/y98-068     Document Type: Article

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