Myocardiocyte apoptosis in heart failure in chronic Chagas' disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 233-237

  Tostes Jr , Sebastião ^a   Rocha Rodrigues, Denise Bertulucci ^a,b   De Araujo Pereira, Gilberto ^a,b   Rodrigues Jr , Virmondes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UBERABA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Chagas' disease; Fibrosis; Myocardiocytes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; NICK END LABELING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 14644420959     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.01.026     Document Type: Article

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