Cardiac structure and function in young and senescent mice heterozygous for a connexin43 null mutation

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 175-184

  Betsuyaku, Tetsuo ^a   Kovacs, Attila ^a   Saffitz, Jeffrey E ^a   Yamada, Kathryn A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cardiac remodeling; Echocardiography; Fibrosis; Left ventricular mass

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLE; THICKNESS; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0036487237     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.2001.1499     Document Type: Article

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