Developmental changes of cardiac function and mass assessed with MRI in neonatal, juvenile, and adult mice

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 278, Issue 2 47-2, 2000, Pages

  Wiesmann, Frank ^a,b   Ruff, Jan ^a   Hiller, Karl Heinz ^a   Rommel, Eberhard ^a   Haase, Axel ^a   Neubauer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Mouse heart; Neonatal physiology; Ventricular mass

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; GENE TARGETING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034095181     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2000.278.2.h652     Document Type: Article

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