Postnatal Growth of Cardiomyocytes in the Left Ventricle of the Rat

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

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 236-247

  Wulfsohn, D ^a   Nyengaard, Jens R ^b   Tang, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Development; Heart; Interstitium; Myocardium; Myocytes; Myofibers; Nuclei; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; INTERSTITIUM; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 1442311395     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20009     Document Type: Article

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