Temporal and Topographic Ultrastructural Alterations of Rat Heart Myofibrils Caused by Thyroid Hormone

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 451-459

  Ferreira, Paula Juliana ^a   L'Abbate, Carolina ^a   Abrahamsohn, Paulo Alexandre ^a   Gouveia, Cecilia Azevedo ^a   Moriscot, Anselmo Sigari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Myocardium; Myofibrillar organization; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HORMONES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEINS; RATS;

AFTER INITIATION; CARDIOMYOCYTES; MYOCARDIUM; MYOFIBRILLAR; MYOFIBRILLAR ORGANIZATION; MYOFIBRILS; RAT HEART; T4 TREATMENT; THYROID HORMONES; TISSUE SAMPLES;

HEART;

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DESMIN; PHOSPHOLIPID; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART WEIGHT; HORMONE ACTION; LAMELLAR BODY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROTOXICOSIS; TISSUE PREPARATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242413318     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.10415     Document Type: Article

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