High rate of ventricular septal defects in WKY rats

Hypertension

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 175-178

  Slama, Michel ^a   Susic, Dinko ^a   Varagic, Jasmina ^a   Frohlich, Edward D ^a  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Hypertension, essential; Hypertrophy; Inbred WKY; Rats; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART WEIGHT; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 0036322196     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000025441.06473.89     Document Type: Article

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