Growth hormone increases the total number of cardiac myocyte nuclei in young rats but not in old rats

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1353-1362

  Brüel, Annemarie ^a   Oxlund, Hans ^a   Nyengaard, Jens R ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Left ventricle; Myocyte nuclei

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEART VENTRICLES; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0036629790     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(02)00073-8     Document Type: Article

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