Increased cardiomyocyte apoptosis and changes in proapoptotic and antiapoptotic genes bax and bcl-2 during left ventricular adaptations to chronic pressure overload in the rat

Circulation

Volumn 99, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3071-3078

  Condorelli, Gianluigi ^a,b,c   Morisco, Carmine ^c   Stassi, Giorgio ^e   Notte, Antonella ^c   Farina, Felicia ^f   Sgaramella, Giuseppe ^c   De Rienzo, Assunta ^c   Roncarati, Roberta ^a   Trimarco, Bruno ^c,d   Lembo, Giuseppe ^c,d  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f Kimmel Cancer Center ^*

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cells; Genes; Heart failure; Hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; SUICIDE GENE;

EID: 0033564419     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.23.3071     Document Type: Article

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