Baseline Echocardiographic Values for Adult Male Rats

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-167

  Watson, Linley E ^a,b,c   Sheth, Milan ^a   Denyer, Robert F ^a   Dostal, David E ^a  

^a Scott and White Memorial Hospital ^*

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Scott Sherwood and Brindley Found   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY VEIN; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0842300343     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2003.10.010     Document Type: Article

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