Determinants of the cardiomyopathic phenotype in chimeric mice overexpressing cardiac Gsα

Circulation Research

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 802-806

  Vatner, Dorothy E ^a,b   Yang, Gui Ping ^a,b   Geng, Yong Jian ^a,b   Asai, Kuniya ^a,b   Yun, Jeung S ^c   Wagner, Thomas E ^c   Ishikawa, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Bishop, Sanford P ^a,b   Homcy, Charles J ^d   Vatner, Stephen F ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure adrenergic receptor; Hypertrophy; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PROPRANOLOL; STIMULATORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL DENSITY; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RATE; HYPERTROPHY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 18244432239     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.86.7.802     Document Type: Article

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