5-Dimensional configuration of perimysial collagen fibres in rat cardiac muscle at resting and extended sarcomere lengths

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 517, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 831-837

  Hanley, Peter J ^a,b   Young, Alistair A ^a   LeGrice, Ian J ^a   Edgar, Stephen G ^a   Loiselle, Denis S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; LASER MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOMERE LENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; COLLAGEN FIBER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; HEART TRABECULAR MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEART; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOMERE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SARCOMERES;

EID: 0033564840     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0831s.x     Document Type: Article

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