Echocardiographic assessment of cardiac structure and function in rats

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 167-173

  Brown, Lindsay ^a   Fenning, Andrew ^a   Chan, Vincent ^a   Loch, David ^a   Wilson, Kathleen ^b   Anderson, Bonita ^b   Burstow, Darryl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac abnormalities; Echocardiography; Thyroid dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART SIZE; MITRAL VALVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; THYROID DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036928514     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2892.2002.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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