Hypercholesterolemia in minipigs impairs left ventricular response to stress: Association with decreased coronary flow reserve and reduced capillary density

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1140-1146

  Theilmeier, Gregor ^a   Verhamme, Peter ^a   Dymarkowski, Steven ^a   Beck, Heike ^a   Bernar, Hilde ^a   Lox, Marleen ^a   Janssens, Stefan ^a   Herregods, Marie Christine ^a   Verbeken, Erik ^a   Collen, Désiré ^a   Plate, Karl ^a   Flameng, Willem ^a   Holvoet, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Capillaries; Cardiac output; Hypercholesterolemia; Microspheres

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARIES; CELL COUNT; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOBUTAMINE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MICROSPHERES; STRESS; SWINE, MINIATURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037183565     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000026805.41747.54     Document Type: Article

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