Ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction: Effect of low-intensity laser irradiation

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-38

  Whittaker, Peter ^a,b   Patterson, Michael J ^a  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries; Cardiac volume; Collagen; Ischemia; Myocardium

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; INFLAMMATION; LASER; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMEGALY; COLLAGEN; CORONARY VESSELS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; INFLAMMATION; LASERS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033856101     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9101(2000)27:1<29::AID-LSM4>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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