Taurine prevents ischemia damage in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 483, Issue , 2000, Pages 109-116

  Takahashi, Kyoko ^a   Ohyabu, Yuko ^a   Schaffer, Stephen W ^b   Azuma, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTONIC AGENT; TAURINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; HEART INJURIES; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAURINE;

EID: 0034585536     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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