Vascular endothelial growth factor-B-deficient mice display an atrial conduction defect

Circulation

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 358-364

  Aase, Karin ^a   Von Euler, Gabriel ^a   Li, Xuri ^a   Pontén, Annica ^a   Thorén, Peter ^b   Cao, Renhai ^f   Cao, Yihai ^c   Olofsson, Birgitta ^a   Gebre Medhin, Samuel ^d   Pekny, Milos ^d   Alitalo, Kari ^e   Betsholtz, Christer ^d   Eriksson, Ulf ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b Section of Integrative Cardiovascular Physiology

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f Box 240 ^*

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Atrium; Conduction; Electrocardiography; Growth substances

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; STATIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GENE DELETION; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; KIDNEY; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035902538     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.104.3.358     Document Type: Article

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