Growth and Maturation of Cardiac Myocytes in Fetal Sheep in the Second Half of Gestation

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 952-961

  Burrell, Judith H ^a   Boyn, Adrian M ^a   Kumarasamy, Vasumathy ^a   Hsieh, Albert ^a   Head, Stewart I ^a   Lumbers, Eugenie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binucleated myocytes; Cardiac myocyte volume; Fetal and neonatal cardiac growth; Hyperplasia; Hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HEART WEIGHT; HYPERTROPHY; INFUSION; LAMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0142043315     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10110     Document Type: Article

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