Effect of repeated sauna therapy on survival in TO-2 cardiomyopathic hamsters with heart failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 343-345

  Ikeda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Biro, Sadatoshi ^a   Kamogawa, Yasuyuki ^a   Yoshifuku, Shiro ^a   Kihara, Takashi ^a   Minagoe, Shinichi ^a   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; HAMSTER; HEART AFTERLOAD; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SAUNA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; MALE; STEAM BATH;

EID: 0036679619     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02482-7     Document Type: Article

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