Reversal of endocardial endothelial dysfunction by folic acid in homocysteinemic hypertensive rats

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 15, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 157-163

  Miller, Amanda ^a   Mujumdar, Vibhas ^a   Palmer, Lena ^a   Bower, John D ^a   Tyagi, Suresh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac ring; Collagen; Elastin; Electrocardiogram; Fibrosis; Functional genomic; Gelatinase; Gene expression; Growth factor; Heart failure; Hypertension; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Norepinephrine

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; FOLIC ACID; GELATINASE; HOMOCYSTEINE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NORADRENALIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISOMER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBROSIS; FOLIC ACID; HEART VENTRICLES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0036182632     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(01)02286-5     Document Type: Article

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