Atrial but not ventricular fibrosis in mice expressing a mutant transforming growth factor-β1 transgene in the heart

Circulation Research

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 571-579

  Nakajima, Hidehiro ^a   Nakajima, Hisako O ^a   Salcher, Olga ^b   Dittiè, Andrea S ^b   Dembowsky, Klaus ^b   Jing, Shaoliang ^a   Field, Loren J ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

^c RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac fibroblast proliferation; Collagen; Cytokine; Extracellular matrix; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; CYTOKINE; DNA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; SERINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034677796     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.86.5.571     Document Type: Article

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