Remodeling of gap junctional coupling in hypertrophied right ventricles of rats with monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension

Circulation Research

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 871-878

  Uzzaman, Mahmud ^a   Honjo, Haruo ^a   Takagishi, Yoshiko ^a   Emdad, Luni ^a   Magee, Anthony I ^b   Severs, Nicholas J ^c   Kodama, Itsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Conduction; Connexin; Immunohistochemistry; Ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; DESMOPLAKIN; MONOCROTALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAT;

EID: 0034724944     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.86.8.871     Document Type: Article

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