Cardiac-specific overexpression of RhoA results in sinus and atrioventricular nodal dysfunction and contractile failure

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1627-1634

  Sah, Valerie P ^a   Minamisawa, Susumu ^b   Tam, Steven P ^a   Wu, Thomas H ^a   Dorn II, Gerald W ^c   Ross Jr , John ^b   Chien, Kenneth R ^b   Brown, Joan Heller ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART HYPERTROPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0032694585     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI6842     Document Type: Article

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