The old spontaneously hypertensive rat as a model for transmyocardial laser revascularisation research

Lasers in Medical Science

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-18

  Huikeshoven, M ^a   Van der Wal, A C ^a   Tukkie, R ^a   Beek, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal model; Chronic myocardial ischaemia; Fibrosis; Hypoxia staining; TMLR research

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; GALLIUM; SCANDIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON; XENON CHLORIDE; YTTRIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CELL HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCIMER LASER; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STAINING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037251132     PISSN: 02688921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10103-002-0251-5     Document Type: Article

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