Changes in titin and collagen underlie diastolic stiffness diversity of cardiac muscle

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2151-2161

  Wu, Yiming ^a   Cazorla, Olivier ^a   Labeit, Dietmar ^b   Labeit, Siegfried ^c   Granzier, Henk ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectin; Diastole; Elasticity; Muscle mechanics; Passive force

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONNECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE; MOUSE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0034509442     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.2000.1281     Document Type: Article

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