Calcineurin inhibitor attenuates left ventricular hypertrophy, leading to prevention of heart failure in hypertensive rats

Circulation

Volumn 102, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 2269-2275

  Sakata, Yasushi ^d   Masuyama, Tohru ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiro ^d   Nishikawa, Nagahiro ^d   Yamamoto, Hideyuki ^c   Kondo, Hiroya ^d   Ono, Keiko ^d   Otsu, Kinya ^d   Kuzuya, Tsunehiko ^d   Miwa, Takeshi ^b   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a   Miyamoto, Eishichi ^c   Hori, Masatsugu ^d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Calcineurin; Heart failure; Hypertension; Hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; PHOSPHATASE; TACROLIMUS;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034739555     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.102.18.2269     Document Type: Article

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